Budapest : City of Music

Name: Budapest : City of Music
Brand: Haus Publishing

Haus Publishing

BudapestCity of Music\nAuthor(s): Nicholas Clapton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Haus Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus\nISBN-13: 9781909961364, 978-1909961364\nSynopsis\nSinger Nicholas Clapton first visited Budapest to record a recently discovered mass by an almost unknown eighteenth-century Hungarian composer. There, he discovered a striking sense of otherness in spite of Hungary s central geographical and cultural position within Europe. And with that, a deep passion for the city was born. Budapest offers an engaging and affectionate look at this beautiful capital from the perspective of a musician who lived and worked there for many years. With rich musical traditions, both classical and folk, and possessing a language like almost no other, Hungary is in the process of abandoning the trappings of its communist past while attempting to preserve its culture from creeping globalization. Clapton delights in the fact that certain old-fashio""