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Author: David Jordan Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595435343 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
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A novel drawing on the personal experiences of the author in Vienna, Austria, just prior to and shortly after the German Army came into the country on March 12, 1938.
Author: David Jordan Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595435343 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
Book Description
A novel drawing on the personal experiences of the author in Vienna, Austria, just prior to and shortly after the German Army came into the country on March 12, 1938.
Author: David Jordan Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 9780595878611 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 188
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On March 12, 1938, the German Army marched into Austria, greeted enthusiastically by much of the population, making the country part of Nazi Germany. Overnight, 200,000 Austrian Jews were turned from citizens into hated and hunted outsiders, unprotected by law or custom. Jacob Abels is one of them; a young Jewish man in beautiful Vienna, immersed in the youthful world of friendships and new love. Suddenly, his familiar and beguiling city is a place of danger and fear. Vienna Farewell is the story of people-Gentiles and Jews, Nazis and anti-Nazis, rich and poor, young and old-lives and fates intertwined, trying in many different ways to make their personal adjustments to this new historical reality; some by attempting to escape abroad, others by resigned and hopeless waiting for the improbable return of better days, and others-Nazis and their allies-by taking brutal advantage of their newly won powers. David Jordan, drawing on his personal experiences, describes the actions and motivations of his contemporaries with the clarity of the inside observer who "knows his Viennese." Part history, part novel, Vienna Farewell shines a revealing light on a place in a time of darkness.
Author: Henry-Louis de La Grange Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780193151604 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 1056
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When the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was hailed in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications as an indispensable portrait of the great composer. Here at last is the third volume of this magisterial work. Ranging from 1904 to 1907, it explores Mahler's final years as administrator, producer, and conductor of the Vienna Opera. It was a time of intense inner struggle, with Mahler's energy and creative powers drained by the competing demands of running the Hofoper and struggling for recognition as a composer. And they were tragic years as well, especially 1907, Mahler's last year in Vienna, when the death of his daughter and the diagnosis of heart disease forced him to leave the Opera. Throughout the book, de La Grange offers true-to-life portraits of Mahler the human being, the family man, and the composer, and he weaves in innumerable testimonies and anecdotes that throw new light on the great composer's complex personality. The product of forty years of research, here is the definitive study of a musical giant. It is, as The Wall Street Journal said of volume two, "a work of the first importance, one that nobody seriously interested in Mahler can possibly afford to skip."
Author: Erik Levi Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 030012306X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 426
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T̀his book fills an important gap in our understanding of the ways in which composers - Mozart in particular - are co-opted for social, cultural and political ends. And it teaches us that reception is as significant a part of cultural history as understanding music in its own time and place.'--Cliff Eisen, Professor of Music History, King's College London.
Author: David Jordan
Author: David Jordan
Author: David Jordan
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