The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. Who is this strange lady? What is she looking at? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? The mannequin now graces a room in the attic of Brendel's house in Hampstead. Her features convey great artistic seriousness in combination with absurd comedy: the epitome of his own musical and literary preferences. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.
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The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.
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'What is revealed in this small but powerful affecting book is a deeper insight than any biography could give into what motivated Brendel's profoundly thought-through piano playing and what drives his love for the absurd and the nonsensical, passions that he has indulged in his life as a poet and writer. '
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The new essay collection from one of music's most original thinkers.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780571353729
Publisert
2019-11-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
329 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
136
Forfatter