1st Edition

Furtwängler on Music Essays and Addresses by Wilhelm Furtwängler

By Ronald Taylor Copyright 1991
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Wilhelm Furtwängler left not only some of the greatest interpretations of operatic and symphonic music on record, but also expressed his views on musical issues of the moment in a number of outspoken essays and talks. His writings range from practical matters of performance and interpretation to aesthetic reflections on what he saw as the alarming direction in which music was developing in the... Read more
Introduction, Part I - The Practice of Music, Part II - On Composers, Part III - On Art and Life, Notes, Index

Biography

Ronald Taylor

’an excellently produced and well edited publication’, Philip B. Catelinet, The Conductor.