Horowitz: His Life and Music
SCHONBERG, Harold C. [Charles Strouse].
Horowitz: His Life and Music
First Edition of Harold C. Schonberg's Horowitz: His Life and Music; From the Collection of Broadway Composer Charles Strouse
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
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First edition of the definitive biography of the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz by the Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Harold C. Schonberg. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. From the collection of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award–winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife, choreographer Barbara Siman. Over his 50-year career, Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconic musical theater hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie, as well as the theme song for the classic sitcom All in the Family (“Those Were the Days”). His partnership with Martin Charnin on Annie produced one of Broadway’s most successful scores ever, with “Tomorrow” and other songs from the production becoming enduring American musical standards admired by generations. His reach knew no genre or generation — from a number-one Billboard hit in 1958 to Jay-Z’s Grammy-winning sampling of “It’s the Hard-Knock Life” four decades later — and his honors include three Tony Awards and induction into both the Songwriters and Theater Halls of Fame. With his ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to the textblock. Jacket design by Julie Metz.
Horowitz: His Life and Music is Harold C. Schonberg’s authoritative biography of Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989), the Russian-born virtuoso widely regarded as the greatest pianist of the twentieth century. Schonberg — senior music critic of The New York Times for two decades and, in 1971, the first music critic awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism — brings a lifetime of close listening to Horowitz’s incandescent technique, his electrifying and sometimes controversial interpretations, his marriage to Wanda Toscanini (daughter of conductor Arturo Toscanini), his recurrent withdrawals from the concert stage, and his triumphant returns, among them the celebrated 1986 homecoming recital in Moscow. Drawing on the recordings, contemporary reviews, and decades of personal acquaintance with the pianist and his circle, Schonberg sets Horowitz within the grand tradition of the Romantic virtuosi he had earlier chronicled in his classic study The Great Pianists. The author of numerous standard works on music, including The Lives of the Great Composers, Schonberg here produced what remains the fullest and most widely read life of his subject.
