The Letters of Arturo Toscanini
The Letters of Arturo Toscanini
“This is a major contribution to our understanding of Toscanini and of several entire eras of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century musical life, especially the almost improvisatory looseness of opera in Italy, the glamour of European festivals, and the concert life of the United States. It’s also a wonderful, sometimes downright salacious read.”—New York Times
“Toscanini’s large, cranky humanity comes alive throughout his letters, as it does in his best recordings.”—New York Review of Books
“Edited with scrupulous care and wide-ranging erudition.”—Wall Street Journal
“Sachs has served the conductor well . . . by editing this generously annotated and unprecedentedly revealing collection of letters that were written, usually in haste and often in fury, over the course of seventy years.”—Washington Post
Reviews
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Explanations and Abbreviations
Introduction
The Letters
Part One: January 1885– September 1897
Part Two: July 1898–May 1933
Part Three: June 1933–May 1936
Part Four: July 1936– September 1937
Part Five: September 1937– September 1939
Part Six: October 1939–March 1946
Part Seven: July 1946–November 1956
Index
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