The maestro myth : great conductors in pursuit of power / Norman Lebrecht
1991, 1st edition. London : Simon & Schuster. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420457
ISBN: 0671710184
Physical description; 393 pp., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm. Contents; The tears of a clown : the composer as conductor ; the personal tragedy of Hans von Bülow -- Honest Hans and the magician : Nikisch and Richter -- Masters of the house : Mahler and Strauss ; Walter, Klemperer and Krauss -- Facing the dictators : Toscanini v Furtwangler ; Szell, Reiner and the Soviet system -- The Karajan case : Karajan, Knappertsbusch and Böhm -- 'A starving population and an absentee aristocracy' : Koussevitsky to Ozawa ; Stokowski, showbiz and Previn -- The gremlin in the garden : Beecham v Barbirolli ; Kubelik ; Solti, Colin Davis and Haitink -- Collapse of the conducting composer : Bernstein and Boulez -- Strange tales from the Vienna Woods : Bernstein, Maazel and Levine -- Formula uno : Abbado, Muti and Sinopoli, Chailly -- The mavericks : Horenstein, Celibidache, two Kleibers and Tennstedt -- Insider dealing : Mehta, Barenboim and the Kosher nostra -- Left outside : gays, women, blacks -- The search for a semi-conductor : Marriner, Munrow, Hogwood and early music -- Where have all the conductors gone? the bare future : Rattle, Salonen and Welser-Möst -- The master of them all? Ronald Wilford and the millionaire conductor -- Diminuendo : afterword to paperback edition, 1992 -- Appendix. Conductors and their careers. Subjects; Conductors (Music) ; Biography. History.
Price: €18.95