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Leon Kirchner - Composer, Performer, and Teacher (Hardcover, New)
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Leon Kirchner - Composer, Performer, and Teacher (Hardcover, New)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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Biography of the late American composer Leon Kirchner (1919-2009),
exploring his work and important personal associations. In this
first biography of American composer, pianist, conductor, and
teacher Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), Robert Riggs paints a vivid
picture of an extraordinary, multifaceted musician. Refugees from
Hitler's Third Reich (Schoenberg, Bloch, and Stravinsky) dominated
Kirchner's early development, and he in turn became a
transformative mentor for later generations at the University of
Southern California, Mills College, and Harvard University.
Kirchner's performance persona is brought to life by highlighting
his appearances with top orchestras and at major festivals,
especially his long tenure at the Marlboro Music Festival, where he
worked with Rudolf Serkin and Pablo Casals. Currentchampions of his
music (Yo-Yo Ma, Leon Fleisher, and James Levine) are also key
protagonists. Kirchner's entire oeuvre is discussed within the
chronological narrative, and six representative works are examined
in detail. Inaddition to Riggs's extensive interviews with the
composer, the biography is documented with Kirchner's colorful
correspondence from a roster of luminaries: Saul Bellow, Leonard
Bernstein, Edward Cone, Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, Isaac Stern,
Roger Sessions, and many others. Excerpts from Kirchner's own
elegantly written essays and speeches complete the portrait and
reveal his highly personal, romantic view of music as powerful art
capable of endowing humanity with an "aesthetic sensibility and
protective wisdom, without which we cannot survive." Robert Riggs
is Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi.
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