Otto Klemperer: Volume 1, 1885–1933: His Life and Times - Couverture rigide

Heyworth, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521495091 ISBN 13 : 9780521495097

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'He could not have hoped for a more devoted and percipient chronicler than Peter Heyworth. Always alive to the broader political and cultural context, Heyworth's biography is a landmark contribution to the story of musical life in our century. It would be hard to imagine a fairer assessment of the conductor; here we have the triumphs and disasters, the idiosyncrasies and even some of the elusive greatness of Klemperer's conducting.' Patrick Carnegy, The Times Literary Supplement

'Mr Heyworth tells Klemperer's heroic and tragic story with a fitting sense of drama and full human understanding and sympathy. It is difficult to see how any musical biography could be done better, and impossible to see how this particular one could.' Bernard Levin, The Observer

'This is a proper book, immaculately researched and lucidly written, a warts-and-all biography that none the less abides by the rule that, whatever a great man's foibles, he deserves, in the final analysis, to be judged by the strongest links in his chain. In Klemperer's case, some links, some chain.' Richard Osborne, Gramophone

'... one of the finest accounts of a musician ever written. Heyworth's prose is unaffected and precise, his scholarship impeccable, his judgements fair and humane.' Michael Kennedy, The Sunday Telegraph

'... superb and meticulously researched ... It is a powerful and sobering tale, told with lucidity and force.' The Sunday Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Otto Klemperer was one of the great conductors of the century, best known in the last years of his life for his performances and recordings of the classical symphonic repertory from Mozart to Mahler. Volume 1 of Peter Heyworth's biography follows the conductor's career from early days in Prague through the innovative period of the Weimar Republic and his appointment as director of the Kroll Opera in Berlin to his abrupt departure from Germany in 1933. This book has become established as a classic account of one of the crucial figures in the musical life of the early twentieth century. With the publication of the long-awaited sequel covering the subsequent years from 1933–1973, this widely acclaimed first volume is now made available in a newly designed format as a companion to volume 2.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521495091
• ISBN 13: 9780521495097
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 512