Humperdinck – A Life of the Composer of Hänsel und Gretel Melton Hardback

Humperdinck A Life of the Composer of H228nsel und Gretel\nby William Melton\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: William Melton\nTitle: Humperdinck A Life of the Composer of H228nsel und Gretel\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Music\nPublisher: Boydell and Brewer\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9780907689928\nISBN-10: 0907689922\nRRP: \u00A339.50\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe first-ever full-length biography in English of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of the opera H\u00E4nsel und Gretel, examining the rest of his substantial output in a historical framework which sets him in the rich musical life of Wilhelmine Germany.Engelbert Humperdinck's opera H\u00E4nsel und Gretel is one of the best-known in the repertoire, its melodies as familiar as folk-tunes - and yet no fu.