Harvey Sachs, Author . Random $26 (225p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6077-1
Beethoven wasn't always a cultural icon. At least one critic attending the 1824 premiere of his Symphony No. 9 in D Minor likened what he heard to a “hideously writhing wounded dragon.” Just why the composer and his works endure is...
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Harvey Sachs, Author Grove Press $27.5 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1579-9
Pianist Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982), apart from being a world-renowned performer for more than 65 years, also wrote a bestselling autobiography, My Young Years. Sachs, author of an admired study of Toscanini, is therefore up against formidable...
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Harvey Sachs, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-02563-7
Under Mussolini, unions were suppressed, trains ran on time, Italy attacked Ethiopia and most Italian artists kowtowed to the dictatornot least of all, composers, conductors, singers and writers on music. In this useful and interesting survey, Sachs
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Harvey Sachs, Author, Henry Sachs, Author Grove/Atlantic $19.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1425-9
Sachs here presents a collection of 11 essays written since the appearance of his biography Toscanini in 1978. Included are commentaries on what others have said about the renowned conductor, critiques of newly released or re-released Toscanini...
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Harvey Sachs. Liveright, $39.95 (992p) ISBN 978-1-63149-271-6
Sachs vibrantly and vividly narrates the sprawling tales of Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini’s passionate life, drawing on a treasure trove of newly available material: almost 1,500 letters, more than 100 tape recordings of Toscanini in...
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