Ernst Von Dohnanyi
Subtitle: A Song of Life
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780253341037
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Music Of The 20th Century; Musical Composition; Music; Biography / Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Composition; Musical Instruments - General; 1877-1960; Biography; Composers; Dohnanyi, Erno,; Dohnâanyi, Ernîo,; Hungary; Pianists
First sentence: The year was 1894.
Description: "Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960) was one of the most highly respected musicians of his time. The young Dohnanyi enjoyed an international prestige that brought him into contact with such nineteenth-century masters as Johannes Brahms and Eugene d'Albert. He is remembered for his technique and interpretive skills as a pianist and conductor, as well as for the masterpieces he composed for piano, chamber ensembles, and orchestra.

As a teacher and administrator, Dohnanyi was responsible for the training of an entire generation of musicians in Hungary, and for helping to shape the country's musical culture. After World War II, his career foundered when he was falsely accused of being a Nazi sympathizer. In 1953, at the age of 76, Dohnanyi returned to international prominence with a triumphant "re-debut" at Carnegie Hall. Ernst von Dohnanyi: A Song of Life, written from a firsthand perspective by Dohnanyi's widow, is the first full English-language biography of the artist.

It is a book for musicians, music lovers, and anyone interested in Dohnanyi and the musical life of his times."--BOOK JACKET.