Harvey sachs artur rubinstein biography

"Harvey Sachs has written excellent books about music and musicians. Here he turns his -- and our -- attention to one of the great monuments of music.

We think we know this symphony quite well.

Harvey sachs artur rubinstein biography wikipedia

How wrong we are! This book will help us to understand it better."

--Andras Schiff

"This book is a great read for expert musicians and for people who can't read a note of music. It is a very personal, loving view of Beethoven and his last symphony, but it also presents a fascinating historic panorama."

--Placido Domingo

The New York Times (Anthony Tommasini): “… as Harvey Sachs writes in his insightful new book, ‘The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824,’ Beethoven’s last symphony has been ‘used as a battle flag by liberals and conservatives, by democrats and autocrats, by Nazis, Communists and anarchists.’ Yet, as Mr.

Sachs makes clear here, Beethoven’s Ninth, whatever ideas and ideals we charge or clutter it with, is also an ingen