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The Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff
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Ruth Gillen
ISBN: 0-313-30748-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30748-5
350 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2000
List Price: $165.00 (UK Sterling Price: £113.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Even after acquiring the Doctor of Laws degree from both the University of Berlin and the Sorbonne (discussed in a letter, along with the effects of living in Europe during the Nazi era), Konrad Wolff's enthusiasm for music was so overwhelming that he became a professional musician in his mid-thirties. That enthusiasm is contagious. The more one reads his work, the more one understands music, but perhaps of greater importance, the more one loves it.

This is the only collection of a substantial quantity of his prolific writings (many never published before) under one cover. With almost 200 musical illustrations and his engaging style of writing, teachers, students, and sophisticated music lovers will find articles such as Schubert's Reaction to Beethoven, Bach's Last Work, and Beethovenian Dissonances in Listz's Piano Music a pleasurable read and an easy way to learn. Correspondence with Sviatoslav Richter, among others, and a brilliant debate between Wolff and Alfred Brendel are unique contributions. Also impressive is the breadth of Wolff's culture. As one scholar who had read the manuscript exclaimed: The writing is so brilliant that it can be applied to fields other than music, as well.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue by Leon Fleisher
    Foreword by Russell Sherman
    Composers
    Frescobaldi
    Bach
    Bach-Reger
    Mozart
    Beethoven
    Schubert
    Schumann
    Liszt
    Stravinsky
    Letters: Paul Badura-Skoda (review of Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music), Paul Henry Lang, Rudolf Serkin, Leon Fleisher, Arthur Schnabel, Sviatoslav Richter
    Miscellany
    Christmas Music
    Music Appreciation, etc.
    The Brendel-Wolff "Debate"
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: RUTH GILLEN, a pianist, studied with the duo-pianists Vronsky and Babin, and with Konrad Wolff. She is a graduate of the High School of Music and Art in New York City, and received Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Hunter College and Columbia University respectively.
LCC Class: 780
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