Perfect Pitch, Third Revised Edition: An Autobiography (Excelsior Editions) (Paperback)
The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.
Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) was a Russian-born United-States-based writer, lexicographer, pianist, composer, conductor, and champion of contemporary music. His many books include Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns; and Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time.