Holowitsz Night: Portraits

Author: David Dubal (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: It is a humane thing to know and understand the great figures of our human race, even including anecdotes. John Keats wrote: "When Shakespeare wrote 'To be or not to be,' what position was he sitting in? Knowing this is a great pleasure." This book is a true record of David Dubal's observations of Vladimir Horowitz. Horowitz was a complex personality and a unique musician. In the last few years of his life, the author was fortunate enough to meet him and interact with him for three and a half years. Now, the author guides us into the world of Horowitz. To the general public, Horowitz was the last representative of Romantic piano art. His death does not merely mean the end of that era. He was the pinnacle of the great tradition that originated with Liszt and Rubinstein. This piano performance concept is rooted in the very essence of Romantic literature, blending Chopin's poetic temperament, Schumann's passionate genius, and Liszt's miraculous musical shaping ability. The beginning of this book is a biography of Horowitz, covering the period until he began to withdraw from the stage in 1953. This book is a distillation and essence of the author's three and a half years of conversations with Horowitz, all of which are preserved in notebooks and tapes.