A Life in Music - Hardcover

Barenboim, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559706740 ISBN 13: 9781559706742

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Traces five decades of the career of the virtuoso conductor, describing his work with some of the twentieth century's most distinguished musicians, his most noted performances, and his travels throughout the world. 20,000 first printing.

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About the Author:

Daniel Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires in 1942, educated in Rome and madehis piano debut at the age of eight and as a solo pianist at the age of eleven with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. His musical tours have taken him all over the world and he has made regular appearances at the Bayreuth, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Prague and Salzburg festivals. In 1967 he married the cellist Jacqueline du Pre (who died in 1987). In 1988 he married Elena Bashkirova. He was musical director of the Paris Orchestra 1975-88, and he has been Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1991 and of the Berlin State Op

Review:

Serial ran in THE GUARDIAN on 6 September, and we have set a press date of 21 September. Daniel Barenboim will be in London on Tuesday 26 November and wewill be arranging one interview with him and he will also be signing some copies for Hatchards. Our first review in THE DAILY TELEGRAPH by the critic andenthusiast Rupert Christiansen is excellent: "This is a highly stimulating book... a repository of wisdom, as rich in insight into great individuals whomBarenboim has encountered as it is in more general reflections on his art...his unshakeable integrity is hugely impressive, and there can be few books by performing artists that are so illuminating." Reviews and coverage in the mu

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1559706740
• ISBN 13: 9781559706742
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256