Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1631492713 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 944 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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“A monumental new Toscanini biography. A reading of this biography helps us to understand this inflexible man, this musician who was so severe, also with himself, this conductor who represents a legend of the musical world, past and present. ” - Riccardo Muti“Arturo Toscanini was a gigantic figure in the history of musical performance…Harvey Sachs’ new biography is the most complete and involving story ever written about this amazing life.” - Plácido Domingo“Arturo Toscanini wa
Toscanini was great but Terrence W. Faulkner I have read the author's previous biography of Toscanini and this is, as claimed, an almost entirely new book. Toscanini's stands against racism and other evils are fully explored. At the same time some of the conductors faults, such as his numerous affairs, are squarely dealt with and I praise the author for his balanced . C. M Mills said Musicologist Harvey Sachs has written his second biogoraphy of the great maestro and it is marvelous! Bravo Sachs!. Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was born into a tailor's family in Parma,. He studied at the Parma Music School winning top honors. Toscanini was a trained cellist and played in several orchestras in Italy before embarking on a tour of Argentina. It was in Rio that he began his legendary conducting career. Toscanini's star sh. Great read This 800+ page tome is fascinating musically and historically.
He lives in New York, and is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Harvey Sachs is the author or coauthor of ten books and has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Times Literary Supplement, among others.
80 photographs. Drawn not only to his illustrious sixty-eight-year career but also to his countless expressions of political courage in an age of tyrants, and to a private existence torn between love of family and erotic restlessness, Sachs produced a biography of Toscanini in 1978. In time, as Sachs chronicles, he would dominate not only La Scala in his native Italy but also the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life is unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscaninirecognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the twentieth centurywas once one of the most famous people in the world. As early as 1922, Toscanini refused to allow his La Scala orchestra to play the Fascist anthem, "Giovinezza," even when threatened by Mussolini’s goons. And when tens of thousands of desperate Jewish refugees poured into Palestine in the late 1930s, he journeyed there at his own expense to establish an orchestra comprised of refugee musicians, and his travels were followed like that of a king.Thanks to unprecedented access to family archives, Toscanini becomes not only the definitive biography of the conductor, but a work that soars in its exploration of musical genius and moral conscien