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epub | 13.78 MB | English | Anthony Tommasini | 2018 | Penguin Publishing Group | Page: 496
Book Description :
An exploration into the question of greatness in classical music
In 2011, Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times Anthony Tommasini wrote a wildly popular series in which he somewhat cheekily engaged his readers to determine the ten all-time greatest composers. With his readers, Tommasini wrestled with questions of criteria. What made the greatest the greatest? Would a composer's popularity factor in? Should influence matter? What about someone whose range was narrow? And what do you do with opera? Readers went nuts. Commenters were inspired to make their own lists. Some railed against the elitism inherent to classical music, but then they raged when Mahler was left off the final list. Tommasini had hit a nerve, but he'd only just begun. Now in THE INDISPENSABLES, he makes the case for his own canon of composers-and what greatness really means in classical music.
Classical music lovers have always cared about greatness; but what does it mean to be...
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