This series looks at the influences and historical events that shaped the lives of the great composers. Illustrated in full-colour, making use of contemporary works of art, these books provide an essential introduction to the lives of those who produced some of the world’s most enduring music.
Gershwin was the American Musician par excellence, pulling together as he did for the first time the diverse strands of jazz, ragtime, European folk and Western ‘classical’ musics to form his own utterly American style.
Here, well embedded into the context of his times, is a very full account of the whole man from his Tin Pan Alley beginnings to his tragically early death, from his early friendship with Astaire to his later devotion to Schoenberg.
