Memoirs: Sir Georg Solti - Hardcover

Solti, Georg; Sachs, Harvey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067944596X ISBN 13: 9780679445968

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Synopsis

The renowned conductor recounts his life from growing up in prewar Hungary, to his musical education, to directing orchestras in Zurich, Munich, Frankfurt, London, and Chicago

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About the Author

Sir Georg Solti, one of the leading conductors of the century, served as music director with orchestras in Munich, Frankfurt, London, and Chicago, and performed all over the world. He made 250 records and CDs for Decca/London, including more than forty operas, and received thirty-one Grammy Awards. He was granted honorary degrees by Oxford, Yale, Harvard, and a score of other universities. He was knighted in 1972. Solti completed his memoirs shortly before his death in the late summer of 1997.

From the Inside Flap

reat music makers of our time has written a memoir as rich in event and adventure as it is in its reflections on, and insights into, music. <br><br> <br><br> <br><br>Sir Georg Solti, in these pages, relives an unparalleled musical life. He tells the story of a musical education that began in his native Budapest when his mother recognized and helped foster his talent. It continued with his studies at the rigorous Liszt Academy with Dohnányi, Kodály, Bartók, and Weiner, and a performance he heard of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, conducted by Erich Kleiber, that forever set his destiny. <br><br> <br><br><br><br>He recounts his prewar experience coaching opera in Budapest, his exile in Zurich during World War II, and his work as music director of the Bavarian

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067944596X
• ISBN 13: 9780679445968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258