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Those Twentieth Century Blues
Michael Tippett
其他書名
An Autobiography
出版Hutchinson, 1991
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralMusic / General
ISBN00917530749780091753078
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Fr8ZAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Sir Michael Tippett's life has always been exceptional - expelled from prep school after prep school, from the age of seven he had to travel across war-torn Europe alone to stay with his nomadic parents in the school holidays. But he always knew that he wanted to be a composer as strongly as he knew he was homosexual. He was imprisoned during World War II as a conscientious objector when his friends - Britten, Sitwell, Eliot, Fry - all escaped prosecution, and was briefly a member of the Communist Party. For years he had a close relationship with his cousin Fresca who finally committed suicide when it became clear that Tippett could never marry her. All this happened against a background of Jungian analysis and composition of masterpieces such as A Child of our Time, King Priam, The Knotgarden and The Mask of Time. This is Tippett's autobiography.