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The Veil of Order - Conversations with Martin Meyer (Paperback, Main)
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The Veil of Order - Conversations with Martin Meyer (Paperback, Main)
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'I was not a child prodigy; indeed, I had none of the requisite
qualities for making a successful career' - which has not prevented
Alfred Brendel from becoming one of the greatest pianists of the
twentieth century. In these dialogues with Martin Meyer he 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. He talks about the
liberties and obligations of a performer and discusses the work of
musicians that have fascinated him, like Edwin Fischer, Cortot,
Kempff, Furtwangler and Bruno Walter, or irritated him, like Glenn
Gould. The conversations which are both serious and witty abound in
amusing anecdotes and contain penetrating insights into the music
of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Busoni and
Schoenberg. Alfred Brendel emerges as a deep-thinking as well as
emotional musician and a passionate sceptic - a Renaissance-like
figure with an engaging sense of humour, a healthy dose of modesty
and an enormous appetite for life.
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