Otto Klemperer: Volume 2, 19331973
Otto Klemperer: Volume 2, 19331973
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Otto Klemperer: Volume 2, 19331973 by Peter Heyworth
This second volume of Peter Heyworth's celebrated biography follows the conductor's fortunes to his final years with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London.
'… this fine and detailed study leaves us in no doubt as to Klemperer's heroic stature' The Guardian
'… superb and meticulously researched … It is a powerful and sobering tale, told with lucidity and force.' The Sunday Times
'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
'… 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
'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
'This is a proper book, immaculately researched and lucidly written, a warts-and-all biography that none the less abides by the rule tha, 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
'… superb and meticulously researched … It is a powerful and sobering tale, told with lucidity and force.' The Sunday Times
'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
'… 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
'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
'This is a proper book, immaculately researched and lucidly written, a warts-and-all biography that none the less abides by the rule tha, 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
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521244886 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521244889 |
| Title | Otto Klemperer: Volume 2, 19331973 |
| Author | Peter Heyworth |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1996-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 500 |
| Prizes | Winner of Michael Durcan Prize. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |