| Record ID | harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.00.20150123.full.mrc:305005635:2532 |
| Source | harvard_bibliographic_metadata |
| Download Link | /show-records/harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.00.20150123.full.mrc:305005635:2532?format=raw |
LEADER: 02532cam a2200289uu 4500
001 000397835-4
005 20030804095331.0
008 850524s1985 nyua b 00110ceng
010 $a 85040264 /MN$z 84040649
020 $a081291189X :$c$24.95
035 0 $aocm11598959
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aML394$b.S393 1985
100 1 $aSchonberg, Harold C.
245 14 $aThe glorious ones :$bclassical music's legendary performers /$cHarold C. Schonberg.
260 0 $aNew York :$bTimes Books,$cc1985.
300 $axviii, 509 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aBibliography: p. [485]-492.
505 0 $aThe castrati : lungs of men, voices of women -- Angelica Catalani : pyrotechnics and greed -- A digression on travel, the industrial revolution, and related matters -- Giuditta Pasta, Maria Malibran, Henrietta Sontag, and Giulia Grisi : bel canto -- Giovanni-Battista Rubini, Mario, and Luigi Lablache : Bengal rockets, sweetness, and cannonades -- A digression on money -- Nicolo Paganini : spawn of the devil -- Franz Liszt : the eagle of the piano -- Jenny Lind : the moral lady -- Joseph Joachim : the incorruptable -- Anton Rubinstein : Russian elemental -- Adelina Patti : the queen of song -- Jean and Edouard de Reszke : the singing brothers -- Ignaz Paderewski : the aureoled Pole -- Pablo de Sarasate, Eugene Ysaye, Jan Kubelik, and Fritz Krisler : a quartet of violinists -- Nellie Melba : the singing machine -- Enrico Caruso : the tenor of tenors -- Josef Hofmann : the Polish keyboard master -- Sergei Rachmaninoff : the Russian master -- John McCormack : Irish gold -- Feodor Chaliapin : bass from Mother Russia -- Arturo Toscanini : the maestro -- Jascha Heifetz : unruffled perfection -- Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior : the two Wagnerians -- Arthur Rubinstein : joie de vivre -- Vladimir Horowitz : electrical energy -- Maria Callas : the will to succeed -- Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, and Georg Solti : timebeaters three -- Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo : mano a mano.
520 $aThe Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" music critic provides anecdotal accounts of the lives and times of thirty-nine musical superstars--from the castrate to Pavarotti and Horowitz.
650 0 $aMusicians$vBiography.
655 7 $aBiography.$2fast
710 2 $aIrwin K. Carson Collection.$5mus
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSchonberg, Harold C.$tGlorious ones.$dNew York : Times Books, ©1985$w(OCoLC)654234181
988 $a20020608
906 $0DLC