Author: Alfred Brendel
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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New edition of pianist Alfred Brendel's definitive collection of his award-winning writings on music. Combines revised versions of his two books, "Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts" and "Music Sounded Out," and includes a number of new essays--some of them never before published in English--discussing Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Schoenberg, or other pianists.
Author: Alfred Brendel
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1849549613
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having merely one string to his bow, however, Brendel is also one of the world's most remarkable writers on music - possessed of the rare ability to bring the clarity and originality of expression that characterised his performances to the printed page. The definitive collection of his award-winning writings and essays, Music, Sense and Nonsense combines all of his work originally published in his two classic books, Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out, along with significant new material on a lifetime of recording, performance habits and reflections on life and art. As well as providing stimulating reading, this new edition provides a unique insight into the exceptional mind of one of the outstanding musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether discussing Bach or Beethoven, Schubert or Schoenberg, Brendel's reflections are illuminating and challenging, a treasure for the specialist and the music lover alike.
Author: Alfred Brendel
Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN: 9780374216511
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Discusses the creative process in classical music, examining such composers as Mozart, Busoni, Beethoven, and Liszt
Author: Alfred Brendel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801440991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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"In a series of dialogues with Martin Meyer, Brendel speaks about his life, the development of his career, his music-making, his travels, his poems and essays; about his childhood in Zagreb, adolescence in Graz, and experiences as a young man in Vienna ("I was in Vienna, but I was never a 'genuine' Viennese"); about literature, painting, architecture, and kitsch.".
Author: Alfred Brendel
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571301851
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.' Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic eloquence and vast knowledge, and will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technique, history and repertoire of the piano. Erudite, witty, enlightening and deeply personal, A Pianist's A to Z is the ideal book for all piano lovers, musicians and music aficionados: rarely has the instrument been described in such an entertaining and intelligent fashion.
Author: Alfred Brendel
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571353738
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. Who is this strange lady? What is she looking at? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? The mannequin now graces a room in the attic of Brendel's house in Hampstead. Her features convey great artistic seriousness in combination with absurd comedy: the epitome of his own musical and literary preferences. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.
Author: Alfred Brendel
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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This deceptively slight volume is proof that not only good but excellent things often come in small packages. A master of the piano, Alfred Brendel here turns in a deft performance as poet, building fantastic little "word machines" of extraordinary tensile strength. We are drawn immediately into a fun-house world of suspicious but wondrous goings-on: The supernumerary index finger of the pianist in the title poem, we're told, sometimes pointed out "an obstinate cougher in the hall/or emerged from beneath his tailcoat/beckoning a lady in the third row." Elsewhere, Beethoven, disguised as Salieri, poisons a sleeping Mozart and skulks away clutching, forever, Mozart's greatest possession--the key of C minor. And the conceptual artist Christo wraps the Three Tenors on the balcony of La Scala. These constantly surprising poems enchant even as they sting, revealing the light (and dark) side of Alfred Brendel, one of the world's greatest musicians. His followers will have to have this book, but so will anyone who enjoys readable poetry touched by a divine madness.
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231073196
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Examines the performance of Western high-art music, the politicized theorizing of it, and the use of "melody, solitude, and affirmation" in it.
Author: Alfred Brendel
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714859866
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Enchanting poems from the famous pianist Alfred Brendel.
Author: Alfred Brendel
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
ISBN: 9780860511878
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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