Me of All People

Alfred Brendel in Conversation With Martin Meyer

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Me of All People

Alfred Brendel in Conversation With Martin Meyer

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""I was not a child prodigy; indeed, I had none of the requisite qualities for making a successful career." This "shortcoming" has not prevented Alfred Brendel from becoming one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. His solo recitals and appearances with the leading orchestras of the world make him a regular guest in London, Paris, New York, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, and Amsterdam, and at the major European and American music festivals.".

"In a series of dialogues with Martin Meyer, Brendel speaks about his life, the development of his career, his music-making, his travels, his poems and essays; about his childhood in Zagreb, adolescence in Graz, and experiences as a young man in Vienna ("I was in Vienna, but I was never a 'genuine' Viennese"); about literature, painting, architecture, and kitsch.".

"Brendel talks about the freedoms and obligations of a performer and discusses the work of musicians who have fascinated him - Alfred Cortot, Edwin Fischer, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Wilhelm Kempff and Bruno Walter - and those who have irritated him, as did Glenn Gould. The conversations between Brendel and Meyer are both serious and witty.

Me of All People abounds in amusing anecdotes and contains penetrating insights into the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Busoni, and Schoenberg."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
320

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Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation With Martin Meyer
October 2002, Cornell University Press
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Me of all people: Alfred Brendel in conversation with Martin Meyer
2002, Cornell University Press
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Cover of: Ausgerechnet Ich
Ausgerechnet Ich: Gesprache Mit Martin Meyer
January 2001, Hanser Gardner Publications
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First Sentence

"Intellectually, but also geographically, you are a Central European."

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
320
Dimensions
9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Weight
1.2 pounds

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Open Library
OL7848530M
Internet Archive
meofallpeoplealf00bren
ISBN 10
0801440998
ISBN 13
9780801440991
OCLC/WorldCat
50004521
Library Thing
1152132
Goodreads
868017

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