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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Pages in excellent condition.. Year 1966. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> EGON WELLESZ born in Vienna on 21 October 1885 has won an international reputation both as a scholar and as a composer. The best way to acknowledge his distinction as a composer is to perform his works. The present volume con-tributed by friends and colleagues in England Europe and the United States pays tribute to his scholar-ship. It is confined entirely to the two main subjects which have been his chief interest since his student days: Christian chant and opera. Chris-tian chant is represented by essays from H. W. J. Tillyard Milos Vel-imirovic Eric Werner Higini Ang-l?s Peter Peacock J. Smits van Waesberghe Michel Huglo Jacques Chailley and John D. Bergsagel. The contributors to the section on opera are Albi Rosenthal Dragotin Cvet-ko F. W. Sternfeld Hellmut Federhofer Hans F. Redlich Gerald Abraham and the editor. (MP)