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A Wayfaring Stranger - Ernst von Dohnanyi's American Years, 1949-1960 (Hardcover)
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A Wayfaring Stranger - Ernst von Dohnanyi's American Years, 1949-1960 (Hardcover)
Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music, 25
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On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von
Dohnanyi (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 Dohnanyi'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
emigre 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 Dohnanyi'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
Dohnanyi's impact on European and American music and the culture of
the time.
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