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The Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff
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Ruth Gillen
Prologue by Leon Fleisher
Foreword by Russell Sherman
Translations of certain texts from the German by Otto Begus
Book Code: GM0748
ISBN: 0-313-30748-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30748-5
350 pages, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2000
List Price: $165.00 (UK Sterling Price: £95.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
Series Number: 48
Reviews:
  • "A recent book I have read and would highly recommend to all music teachers is The Writings of Konrad Wolff....this book is 'must reading'
    —Music Teachers National Association Spring/Summer Newsletter
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
LC Card Number: 98-48898
LCC Class: ML60
Dewey Class: 780
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