Musicians on Music: Truth and Music : The Complete Writings from Music and Musicians, 1957-85 (Series #10) (Hardcover)

A stimulating collection of essays by the most influential writer on music in C20th Britain, culled from the pages of Music and Musicians.

Hans Keller - born in Vienna in 1919 and a Jewish refugee from Nazism - became the most influential writer on music in Britain after George Bernard Shaw.

His writings were always concerned with a search for the truth - 'the truth about music, and the truth in music', as he put it - and tackled the deepest musical questions head-on: why a piece of music had the effect it did; why a musician performed as he or she did; why the development of composition proceeded as it did.

These issues and more were explored in a forty-year flood of writings, lectures and broadcasts.