Naivität und Ironie Essays und Gespräche by Alfred Brendel School and Community - Sheet Music

SKU: M7.MGSU-35784

ISBN 9783835357846.

New essays by Alfred Brendel - on music, literature and ageing. Alfred Brendel is not only one of the best pianists of our time, but also one of the most stimulating essayists, who has not only dealt with music with naivety and irony, but also with great knowledge and empathy. When Goethe claims: "He who does not love music does not deserve to be called a man; he who loves it is half a man, but he who practices it is a whole man", then it is the "whole man" Alfred Brendel who speaks in these new works. Whether he is writing about Goethe's musical needs' or about Goethe and Beethoven, Mozart or the often neglected Haydn, he always opens our eyes to the special aspects of their music. About Haydn: Besides the bewildering diversity of his oeuvre, it is the widespread lack of humor that I see as one of the main reasons why Haydn is still often underestimated.In addition to the major essays, there are three conversations that not only provide information about his relationship to music and the music business, but also to the literature he loved throughout his life and to the age that has now also reached this man. On the occasion of a conversation about Busoni, he drew a small self-portrait: 'What immediately captivated me about him was the diversity of his personality: pianist, composer and pedagogue, writer and book nerd, editor and arranger, lover of the visual arts and architecture as well as theater - all in one person. Do you know another musician with such a broad horizon?