David Cooper is professor of music and technology, and dean of the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications, University of Leeds. His publications include Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra. The author lives in Liversedge, UK.
“David Cooper offers a rounded, all-encompassing portrait of the
man and the musician in this authoritative
biography”—Stringendo
'Béla Bartók was without a doubt one of the most important
composers of the twentieth century. Outside of his native country
Hungary, there have been relatively few books devoted to his life
and works. David Cooper's comprehensive study of Bartók?'s
?oeuvre is a most welcome addition to the canon. Cooper justly
concentrates on the music, introducing and analysing each and every
composition, starting with the very early works. He also provides
the appropriate historical background that is absolutely necessary
to comprehend the man and his music. Bartók's life is a rare
example of artistic progress and of uncompromising
integrity. He is one of the giants in the history of music, a
fact that this book will duly confirm.' - Sir Andras Schiff
‘Cooper’s book combines biography with musical analysis, which is
illuminating… He calls on an unprecedented range of sources, and
new details emerge’—Ivan Hewett, the Daily Telegraph.
*The Daily Telegraph*
“Musicians and scholars will want to devour this new contribution
to Bartók research.”—Library Journal
*Library Journal*
“As a work of scholarship, Cooper’s biography is excellent:
exhaustive, detailed, informed by a deep and nuanced understanding
of Bartók’s music.”—Sudip Bose, The Washington Post
*The Washington Post*
“Cooper is to be applauded for balancing the many facets of
Bartók’s life to give us a well-rounded account.”—George B.
Stauffer, The Weekly Standard
*The Weekly Standard*
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