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DATE OF RELEASE: 30 OCT 2025

Robin Holloway’s long-awaited Music’s Odyssey is a book about classical music unlike any other. With the insights of a composer himself, he takes us to the essence of baroque, classical, romantic and modern classical music – lesser-known composers and their works, as well as the greats – through close readings, daring comparisons and brilliant insights. Holloway characterizes, illuminates, and energizes his subject with musical empathy,sureness of judgement and mastery of descriptive language, tracing not only the evolution of forms of music but the history of feeling and the emotion behind the creation and enjoyment of composition.

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Publication: 30 Oct 2025, Allen Lane 

ISBN: 9780241183014

Extent: 1232 pages

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Music’s Odyssey: An Invitation to Western Classical Music by Robin Holloway

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      Description

      DATE OF RELEASE: 30 OCT 2025

      Robin Holloway’s long-awaited Music’s Odyssey is a book about classical music unlike any other. With the insights of a composer himself, he takes us to the essence of baroque, classical, romantic and modern classical music – lesser-known composers and their works, as well as the greats – through close readings, daring comparisons and brilliant insights. Holloway characterizes, illuminates, and energizes his subject with musical empathy,sureness of judgement and mastery of descriptive language, tracing not only the evolution of forms of music but the history of feeling and the emotion behind the creation and enjoyment of composition.

      Hardback  
      Publication: 30 Oct 2025, Allen Lane 

      ISBN: 9780241183014

      Extent: 1232 pages

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