This Business of Music: reflections of a music publisher

by Ernst Roth

Originally published as Musik als Kunst und Ware. Zurich, Atlantis, 1966.

269 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1969

Reviews

[Lyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

P. 206. [On the world-premiere of Stravinsky's The Rake' Progress in Venice] The evening was a social event of the first order. All the famous film stars were present – the film festival coincided with the music festival … The performance of Stravinsky's first and only full-length opera was of secondary importance … The public was not greatly interested in what happened between the intervals….

P. 229
Later Britten became more self-critical, writing more slowly and examining what he had written more closely. A Midsummer Night's Dream and the War Requiem were more thoroughly revised between the first performance and the printed score than any other earlier work.