The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri Quartet in Conversation with David Blum

by David Blum

Overview

This collection of conversations with the Guarneri members explores all the most important facets of chamber-music playing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801494567
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	06/15/1987
Series:	Cornell Paperbacks Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Blum founded New York's Esterhazy Orchestra and l'Orchestre Symphonique Genevois in Geneva, Switzerland. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, he wrote The Art of Quartet Playing, also from Cornell, and Casals and the Art of Interpretation.

What People are Saying About This

American Record Guide McClain

This is a book about the artistic credos of five superb musicians. It is literate, well crafted, readable, and holds one's interest from beginning to end. Arnold Steinhardt (of Guarneri Quartet fame) provides an excellent forward. the author tries to get inside his subjects and describe what makes them the artists they are.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book about the artistic credos of five superb musicians. It is literate, well crafted, readable, and holds one's interest from beginning to end. Arnold Steinhardt (of Guarneri Quartet fame) provides an excellent forward. the author tries to get inside his subjects and describe what makes them the artists they are."—McClain, American Record Guide, September/October 2000.

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