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Hermann Levi - From Brahms to Wagner (Hardcover)
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Hermann Levi - From Brahms to Wagner (Hardcover)
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Jewish conductor Hermann Levi strove for excellence and recognition
as a composer and conductor of classical music in 19th-century
Germany. He unerringly devoted himself to the orchestral
performance of works by the two major figures of the time: Johannes
Brahms and Richard Wagner. In spite of the anti-Semitic atmosphere,
Levi saw the conducting of Wagner's works as a major calling: one
that pinnacled in the premier performance of Parsifal in Bayreuth.
In this biography, newly translated into English by Cynthia Klohr,
opera scholar and conductor Fritjof Haas surveys the life and work
of this remarkable individual. Born of a long line of rabbis and
raised on the ideals of political emancipation of Europe's Jews,
Levi sought to break the social constraints and boundaries imposed
upon him because of his religious heritage by the power brokers of
the classical music scene. Like so many German Jews of his
generation, Levi struggled nearly all his life to dissolve the
battle between personal lot and social prejudice. Drawing on the
wealth of material from the "Leviana" repository in Munich,
Germany, Haas artfully weaves together Levi's personal history with
his musical milieu to paint a portrait of this ambitious and
ambivalent figure in the world of 19th-century German music. This
work will be of special interest to musicologists, musicians, opera
fans, classical music listeners, and historians and scholars of
Judaic studies.
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