Toscanini: Musician of Conscience - Brossura

Sachs, Harvey

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ISBN 10: 1631494902 ISBN 13: 9781631494901

Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2018

Riassunto

Harvey Sachs’s “monumental” (Alex Ross) biography recounts the sixty-eight-year career of conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957), an artist celebrated for his fierce dedication, photographic memory, explosive temper, impassioned performances, and uncompromising work ethic. Toscanini collaborated with Verdi, Puccini, Debussy, and Richard Strauss; undertook major reforms at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera; and eventually pioneered the radio and television broadcasts of the NBC Symphony. His monumental achievements inspired generations, while his opposition to Nazism and fascism made him a model for artists of conscience. In this “persuasive and compelling” new biography, Sachs illuminates the “crucial—the central—role Toscanini played in our musical culture for well over 60 years” (New York Times Book Review). Set against the roiling currents of twentieth-century Europe and the Americas, Toscanini is a “necessary” portrait of this “complex, flawed, but noble human being and towering artist” (Wall Street Journal) whose peerless influence reverberates today.

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Recensione:

"Drawing on a wide range of new evidence, including unknown letters and the archives of many of the opera houses that Arturo Toscanini worked with, including La Scala, Harvey Sachs has written a weighty and highly enjoyable account of one of the greatest conductors, a man still renowned for his pursuit of perfection."

--Books of the Year 2017, The Economist

"...[a] magnificent biography...there will surely be no need for another..."

--The Spectator

"Considering the great impact Arturo Toscanini had on my family--and certainly my father, Carmine Coppola, his first chair flute during the '40s--I would say that Toscanini's powerful personality brought a unity to his conducting...He was the music he was conducting, the interpretive being...I am reminded of all of this in reading Harvey Sachs's comprehensive new biography, which dramatically re-creates both the conductor's musical genius and the politics of a distant age."

--Francis Ford Coppola

"Harvey Sachs has provided a compendious chronicle of Toscanini's astonishing achievement across almost a century, and it makes for compelling reading."

--Times Literary Supplement

"Harvey Sachs has written the definitive biography of this great, and colourful, character...Mr Sachs's writing style is precise, fluent and gripping. And one can dip in and out of the book, since Mr Sachs helpfully offers reminders of important characters and explains basic concepts. As a study of the life and times of one of the greatest conductors of all time, this book will not soon be bettered."

--The Economist

"...marvellously researched and continually fascinating...[a] superb book..."

--The Oldie

"Sachs' mammoth biography of Toscanini is a tour de force; impressive in almost every respect. It's well written, hugely detailed and impeccably researched."

--Tribune Magazine

"Sachs has written a readable, fascinating and definitive book brought to life with the many letters and extracts from recordings of one of the great men of the 20th century."

--Up Beat

"Sachs' own dedication to this force of nature has been fulfilled in a book which ranks among the best of 2017."

--Classical Music Magazine

"It is without doubt the most engaging, the best-written and certainly the most comprehensive Toscanini biography yet to be written."

--Gramophone Magazine

L'autore:

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. He lives in New York, and is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

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• Editore: Liveright Pub Corp
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1631494902
• ISBN 13: 9781631494901
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 923