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Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music: A Legacy of the Nineteenth Century
Late-Romantic piano performance as viewed by one of its greatest virtuosi
- GenresMusic
208 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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September 16, 2010
If one were to ask 100 scholars of the piano who the ten greatest pianists of all time were, Rosenthal would probably make all one hundred's list.
This is not a biography but rather a collection of materials, from correspondence, to a fragmentary autobiography, to concert reviews, magazine articles and published and unpublished reminiscences that in montage-like fashion reconstruct the life and career of Rosenthal.
There were many fascinating and surprising facts that alone justified reading the book. It's a thrill to read about Rosenthal's first-hand encounters with immortals like Anton Rubinstein, Brahms, Liszt and Busoni. Of course Rosenthal is one of these immortals himself.
This is for piano aficionados only.
This is not a biography but rather a collection of materials, from correspondence, to a fragmentary autobiography, to concert reviews, magazine articles and published and unpublished reminiscences that in montage-like fashion reconstruct the life and career of Rosenthal.
There were many fascinating and surprising facts that alone justified reading the book. It's a thrill to read about Rosenthal's first-hand encounters with immortals like Anton Rubinstein, Brahms, Liszt and Busoni. Of course Rosenthal is one of these immortals himself.
This is for piano aficionados only.
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