Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes - Nicolas Slonimsky - Paperback

Nicolas Slonimsky was an influential editor, translator, and writer on music. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1894, in his 101 years he taught and coached (at Harvard and the Eastman School of Music, among other places); performed piano; composed; and conducted, frequently premiering the works of the great lights of the day, among them Charles Ives, Edgard Varese, and Henry Cowell. In the mid-1920s he began a monthly column of musical anecdotes in Etude magazineSlonimsky, Nicolas is the author of 'Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes - Nicolas Slonimsky - Paperback' with ISBN 9780825672255 and ISBN 0825672252.