Wilhelm Furtwängler: Art and the Politics of the Unpolitical

by Roger Allen

Book Overview

A pathbreaking, new intellectual biography of the composer and conductor Wilhelm Furtw?ngler.

Wilhelm Furtw?ngler (1886-1954) has entered the historical memory as a renowned interpreter of the canon of Austro-German musical masterworks. His extensive legacy of recorded performances of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Wagneris widely regarded as unsurpassed. Yet more than sixty years after his death he remains a controversial figure: the complexities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178327283X
• ISBN13: 9781783272839
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"