| A Wayfaring Stranger: Ernst Von Dohnányi's American Years, 1949-1960 Volume 25 Contributor(s): Kusz, Veronika (Author), McLean, Brian (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0520301838 ISBN-13: 9780520301832 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $69.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Individual Composer & Musician - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Genres & Styles - Classical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2019024378 |
| Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohn nyi (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 Dohn nyi'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 migr 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 Dohn nyi'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 Dohn nyi's impact on European and American music and the culture of the time. |