Author: Holden, Raymond
Title: The Virtuoso Conductors : The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan
Description: New Haven [CT], Yale University Press, (2005). orig.boards. 24x15cm, x,370 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Richard Wagner, Zukunftsdirigent -- ’The master- conductor Hans von Bülow’ -- The magician of the podium: Arthur Nikisch -- The distiller’s son: Gustav Mahler -- ’An unrecognised genius’? Felix Weingartner -- Richard III: Richard Strauss -- ’That greasy rascal Bruno Walter’ -- A troubled mind: Otto Klemperer -- The transcendental Furtwä ngler -- ’Das wunder Karajan’.

Keywords: Musical History, Musicology, Richard Wagner, Music, Conducting, Conductors, , ,