The Beauty of Belaieff

Richard Beattie Davis

368 Pages in Full Colour l Large Format (280mm x 220mm)

143 Full Page Colour Plates l Fully Annotated Throughout

Extensive Individual Bibliographies l Composer Chronology

Full List of Works l Comprehensive Index l Hardback + Dustjacket

Price £65.00 plus delivery by Royal Mail.

Richard Beattie Davis, a resident of Kent, England has been for many years a keen collector of first and early editions of Western and Russian music. He has written articles on Henselt, Hummel, Balakirev and Lyapunov and has mounted exhibitions and given talks in London, Germany and South Florida. He has contributed works listings of a number of other Russian composers, together with sleeve notes for recorded works of Lyapunov, Balakirev, Henselt, Rakhmaninov and Scriabin . He was, for many years, on the Governing Board of the 'Purcell School of Music' (London) and is currently a 'fellow'. In the 1960s he was a founding member of the 'Haydn Opera Society' (London) He has contributed articles for the 2^nd.Edition of 'The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians', and a forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Russian music, currently in preparation. He has now written the definitive work on the Russian music publisher, Mitrofan Petrovich Belaieff many of whose publications he has lodged with the 'Special Collections' of the S.E.Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. (www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/davis.htm) Richard Davis is the honorary president of the 'Internationale Adolph-Henselt-Gesellschaft' (Schwabach, Germany) where he has presented papers, made listings and mounted music exhibitions.

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