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This collection of letters to and from the eminent harpsichordist, scholar, and early-music pioneer Ralph Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the musician from the beginning of his career in Paris in the 1930s to its end in the early 1980s, offering new insights into his work and scholarship. The volume contains letters to his family from Europe as well as correspondence with harpsichord makers, performers, and composers, including Nadia Boulanger, Alexander Schneider, John Kirkpatrick, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, John Challis, Kenneth Gilbert, Serge Koussevitsky, and Vincent Persichetti. In addition, two former students of Kirkpatrick, the guitarist Eliot Fisk and the harpsichordist Mark Kroll, write about their experiences studying with Kirkpatrick in a foreword and an afterword. The volume also includes a bibliography of publications by and about the musician, as well as a discography. Meredith Kirkpatrick is a librarian and bibliographer at Boston University and is the niece of Ralph Kirkpatrick.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Ralph Kirkpatrick
• Subtitle: Letters of the American Harpsichordist and Scholar
• Author: Ralph Kirkpatrick
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9781580465014
• ISBN: 1580465013
• ID: 04822813
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Weight: 419 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 150 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. November 2014

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