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  title info:
    title: Toscanini
    sub title: musician of conscience
  name:
    name part: Sachs, Harvey
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 923 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscanini, recognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the twentieth century, was once one of the most famous people in the world. Like Einstein in science or Picasso in art, Toscanini (1867-1957) transcended his own field, becoming a figure of such renown that it was often impossible not to see some mention of the maestro in the daily headlines. Acclaimed music historian Harvey Sachs has long been fascinated with Toscanini's extraordinary story. Drawn not only to his illustrious sixty-eight-year career but also to his countless expressions of political courage in an age of tyrants, and to a private existence torn between love of family and erotic restlessness, Sachs produced a biography of Toscanini in 1978. Yet as archives continued to open and Sachs was able to interview an ever-expanding list of relatives and associates, he came to realize that this remarkable life demanded a completely new work, and the result is Toscanini, an utterly absorbing story of a man who was incapable of separating his spectacular career from the call of his conscience. Famed for his fierce dedication but also for his explosive temper, Toscanini conducted the world premieres of many Italian operas, including Pagliacci, La Boheme and Turandot, as well as the Italian premieres of works by Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Debussy. In time, as Sachs chronicles, he would dominate not only La Scala in his native Italy but also the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. He also collaborated with dozens of star singers, among them Enrico Caruso and Feodor Chaliapin, as well as the great sopranos Rosina Storchio, Geraldine Farrar and Lotte Lehmann, with whom he had affairs. While this consuming passion constantly blurred the distinction between professional and personal, it did forge within him a steadfast opposition to totalitarianism and a personal bravery that would make him a model for artists o…
  table of contents: Indeterminate and determinate sounds -- Beardless maestro -- Turin -- La Scala reformed -- The Metropolitan -- Interlude -- La Scala re-created -- The New York Philharmonic and new horizons -- Clear as crystal and just as cutting -- Exile and return -- Finale -- Coda.
  note: Harvey Sachs.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Toscanini, Arturo
      name part: 1867-1957
  subject:
    topic: Conductors (Music)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Conductors (Music)
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians
  subject:
    topic: MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician
  classification: ML422.T67 S35 2017
  classification: 784.2092 B
  identifier: 9781631492716
  identifier: 1631492713
  identifier: 2017016654
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170405
    record change date: 20190122151213.0
    record identifier: in00004036908