The Last Romantic in His Own Words - Grymes, James A; Kusz, Veronika
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The Last Romantic in His Own Words presents the selected writings and interviews of Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer Ernst von Dohnányi. These texts shed new light on Dohnányi's singular aesthetics, as well as on his career as a charismatic and at times controversial public figure who was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, particularly in Hungary. The book facilitates a much-needed reevaluation of a public figure and private individual caught up in the web of twentieth-century politics, resulting in a picture that is more complete than ever of one of the most elusive musicians of the twentieth century.…mehr

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The Last Romantic in His Own Words presents the selected writings and interviews of Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer Ernst von Dohnányi. These texts shed new light on Dohnányi's singular aesthetics, as well as on his career as a charismatic and at times controversial public figure who was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, particularly in Hungary. The book facilitates a much-needed reevaluation of a public figure and private individual caught up in the web of twentieth-century politics, resulting in a picture that is more complete than ever of one of the most elusive musicians of the twentieth century.
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Autorenporträt
James A. Grymes is the author/editor of Ernst von Dohnányi: A Bio-Bibliography, Ernst von Dohnányi: A Song of Life and Perspectives on Ernst von Dohnányi, as well as the author of Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour. He is Professor of Musicology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Veronika Kusz is the author of A Wayfaring Stranger: Ernst von Dohnányi's American Years, 1949-1960 and the editor of Dohnányi Erno: Válogatott írások és nyilatkozatok [Erno Dohnányi: Selected writings and interviews]. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Research Centre for the Humanities and curator of the Dohnányi Collection there.