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Shura Cherkassky : the piano's last czar / Elizabeth Carr.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, Elizabeth, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cherkassky, Shura.
- Pianists--Biography.
- Pianists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 301 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- This biography documents the unique artistry and highly unusual life of the internationally acclaimed pianist Shura Cherkassky, who, at the time of his death in 1995, was universally recognized to be among the greatest pianists in music history, and the last link to the romantic piano tradition of Chopin, Liszt and Anton Rubinstein.
- Contents:
- Mother Russia
- Baltimore, 1923
- Shura and the palmist, the 1923-1924 season
- Prodigies compared : Shura and Jozio
- The Hofmann years, 1925-1935
- Around the world, 1935-1939
- Shattered, 1940-1945
- Oblivion to triumph : the postwar years
- Shura and the gramophone
- On stage
- A conductor's nemesis
- The last romantic?
- The house of Steinway
- On tour, U.S.S.R., 1987
- Understanding Shura
- Prague, 1995
- Final tributes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289), discography (pages 259-282), and index.
- ISBN:
- 0810854104
- OCLC:
- 60705554
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