A Wayfaring Stranger : Ernst von Dohnanyi's American Years, 1949-1960 Hardback
by Veronika Kusz
Part of the California Studies in 20th-Century Music series
Hardback
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On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good.
Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life.
Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home.
A Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in Dohnányi’s exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and his unique oeuvre.
Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of émigré life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist.
To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an in-depth examination of Dohnányi’s late works—in most cases the first analyses to appear in musicological literature.
This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician’s life in the United States and skillfully illustrates Dohnányi’s impact on European and American music and the culture of the time.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 27 music examples, 10 photographs, 5 charts
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:21/01/2020
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- ISBN:9780520301832
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 27 music examples, 10 photographs, 5 charts
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:21/01/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520301832
