Reverberations: The Memoirs of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Hardcover

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880641371 ISBN 13: 9780880641371

Publisher: Fromm International, 1989

Synopsis

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder performers of the post-war period, best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, particularly "Winterreise"

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Text: English, German (translation)

From Publishers Weekly:

The great lieder singer, still splendidly active in his mid-60s, offers one of the more remarkable musical memoirs, particularly given the range of his experience. Growing up in pre-war Berlin under the regime he refers to simply as the Browns, he seems to have been a shy, gawky youth who came into his own only as a performer. As a soldier he was a POW in Italy, then returned to a devastated Germany. His account of the struggle rebuilding a shattered culture and of the postwar difficulties of German conductors and orchestras, is riveting. Later the book becomes a more conventional, anecdotal chronicle of the career of a world star, his encounters with conductors, accompanists, divas, composers, promoters. He has some offbeat views, however, being less than idolatrous of such icons as Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer and warmly admiring of lesser-known (to Americans) maestros Wolfgang Sawallisch and Joseph Keilberth. Fischer-Dieskau has been receptive to contemporary music, in addition to his preeminence in Schubert and Wolf, and versatility as opera singer. He emerges from these pages as a notably thoughtful, intelligent artist whose story is only occasionally marred by the vanity apparently endemic to the breed. Performing Arts Book Club s election.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fromm International
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0880641371
• ISBN 13: 9780880641371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376