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Rudolph Ganz
Jeanne Collette Collester
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Description for Rudolph Ganz
Hardback. This first biography of Rudolph Ganz provides a balanced appraisal of his music and its effect on the western tradition. Illustrated. Extensive endnotes and appendixes. Num Pages: 211 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
Rudolph Ganz (1877-1972) was an eminent musician and a champion of modern music. Throughout his long and prolific career as a pianist, conductor, composer, and educator, this Swiss/American musician represented an incomparable link between the old and new. Personal recollections included Liszt and Brahms and friendships with Busoni, Paderewski, Schweitzer, Toscanini, Theodore Thomas, Rachmaninoff, and Bartok. Ravel, Griffes, and Tcherepnin, among others, dedicated important compositions to him. His programs frequently offered first performances of contemporary music. As late as 1962, at age 85, Ganz continued to pioneer new music at the First International Webern Festival. This first biography of ... Read more
Rudolph Ganz (1877-1972) was an eminent musician and a champion of modern music. Throughout his long and prolific career as a pianist, conductor, composer, and educator, this Swiss/American musician represented an incomparable link between the old and new. Personal recollections included Liszt and Brahms and friendships with Busoni, Paderewski, Schweitzer, Toscanini, Theodore Thomas, Rachmaninoff, and Bartok. Ravel, Griffes, and Tcherepnin, among others, dedicated important compositions to him. His programs frequently offered first performances of contemporary music. As late as 1962, at age 85, Ganz continued to pioneer new music at the First International Webern Festival. This first biography of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810828834
SKU
V9780810828834
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About Jeanne Collette Collester
Jeanne Colette Collester (M.Ed., Miami University of Ohio; MA, Washington University, St. Louis) is the step-daughter of Rudolph Ganz. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois. In 1988 she published Frederick Oakes Sylvester: The Principia Collection, a monograph on the turn-of-the-century St. Louis artist. In addition to teaching, she co-directs a number of art ... Read more
Reviews for Rudolph Ganz
For those who care about music in Chicago, in America, and everywhere else in the Western world, his legacy as a man and artist remains.
Bernard Jacobson, former music critic, CHICAGO DAILY NEWS In its careful chronology of an extraordinary life and in its many in-depth quotations from the subject himself, this long overdue book on Rudolph Ganz is ... Read more
Bernard Jacobson, former music critic, CHICAGO DAILY NEWS In its careful chronology of an extraordinary life and in its many in-depth quotations from the subject himself, this long overdue book on Rudolph Ganz is ... Read more