| Title: | The glorious ones [Texto impreso] : the lives of classical music's legendary performers / Harold C. Schonberg |
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| Author: | Schonberg, Harold C., 1915-2003 |
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| Published/Created: | New York, N.Y. : Times Books, cop.1985 |
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| Physical description: | 413 p. ; il. ; 21 cm |
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| Language: | Inglés. |
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| Content notes: | The castrati : lungs of men, voices of women -- Angelica Catalani : pyrotechnics and greed -- A digression on travel, the industrial revolution, and related matters -- Giuditta Pasta, Maria Malibran, Henrietta Sontag, and Giulia Grisi : bel canto -- Giovanni-Battista Rubini, Mario, and Luigi Lablache : Bengal rockets, sweetness, and cannonades -- A digression on money -- Nicolo Paganini : spawn of the devil -- Franz Liszt : the eagle of the piano -- Jenny Lind : the moral lady -- Joseph Joachim : the incorruptable -- Anton Rubinstein : Russian elemental -- Adelina Patti : the queen of song -- Jean and Edouard de Reszke : the singing brothers -- Ignaz Paderewski : the aureoled Pole -- Pablo de Sarasate, Eugene Ysaye, Jan Kubelik, and Fritz Krisler : a quartet of violinists -- Nellie Melba : the singing machine -- Enrico Caruso : the tenor of tenors -- Josef Hofmann : the Polish keyboard master -- Sergei Rachmaninoff : the Russian master -- John McCormack : Irish gold -- Feodor Chaliapin : bass from Mother Russia -- Arturo Toscanini : the maestro -- Jascha Heifetz : unruffled perfection -- Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior : the two Wagnerians -- Arthur Rubinstein : joie de vivre -- Vladimir Horowitz : electrical energy -- Maria Callas : the will to succeed -- Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, and Georg Solti : timebeaters three -- Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo : mano a mano. |
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| Notes: | 1a ed.
Incluye índice y bibliografía. |
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| Subject/Form: | Músicos
Biografías |
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| Rights: | Los contenidos de este registro, incluyendo textos, imágenes, sonido o cualquier otro objeto, son propiedad del Arxiu Alicia de Larrocha. Copia permitida con finalidad de estudio o investigación citando la fuente "Arxiu Alicia de Larrocha" |
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| Topographic/Location: | PE-MINT-0031 |
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| Item type: | Books |
| ID: | 003064 |
| Creation record: | 2021-01-18 12:20:30 |
