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Author Skinner, Graeme, author.

Title Peter Sculthorpe : the making of an Australian composer / Graeme Skinner.

Publication Info. Sydney : Unsw Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Peter Sculthorpe, who died in 2014, remains Australia's best-known composer and is widely held to be the most important creative musical spirit the country has produced. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorised biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe's formation years: his quest for personal voice, and his arrival - through many creative friendships and collaborations - at a place in the collective heart of the nation. It charts the realisation of a youthful vocation to become not merely a composer, but an Australian composer. Graeme Skinner's biography is also a social history, examining Sculthorpe's unique role in the creation of Australian musical modernism in the 1960s - an important era in Australia's cultural evolution.
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Subject Sculthorpe, Peter, 1929-2014.
Sculthorpe, Peter, 1929-2014.
Sculthorpe, Peter, 1929-2014 -- Influence.
Composers -- Australia -- Biography.
Composers.
Australia.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Music -- Australia -- 20th century.
Music.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music -- Australia -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
ISBN 9781742242163 (electronic book)
1742242162 (electronic book)