Herbert Weinstock (1905–1971)
Author of Men of Music
About the Author
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Works by Herbert Weinstock
The world of opera; the story of its origins and the lore of its performance (Modern Library Giant, 95.1) (1962) 24 copies
The OPERA (A History Of Its Creation And Performance: 1600-1941) (1942) — Author — 11 copies, 1 review
Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. (1963) 9 copies, 1 review
Music as an art 2 copies
Associated Works
My Voyage Around the World: The Chronicles of a 16th Century Florentine Merchant (1958) — Translator, some editions — 39 copies, 1 review
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1905-11-16
- Date of death
- 1971
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Occupations
- author
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
Members
Reviews
I acquired this biographical compendium while I was in undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin. It was my introduction to the lives of some of the composers I already knew both from listening to and playing their music. But it was also a doorway to new names like Palestrina, Gluck and Weber. Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock blend the lives and achievements of the greatest of composers with the context of their times in short readable essays. Only slightly detracting from show more the value of this collection is the absence of the great twentieth century composers. For that I would recommend Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise. Brockway and Weinstock's work remains a classic reference work for the essential lives of the greatest classical composers. show less
Summary: This is the story of a colossally great musician. It is also a delightful panorama of his times in Germany, Italy, England and Ireland.
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Statistics
- Works
- 12
- Also by
- 5
- Members
- 231
- Popularity
- #97,642
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 15
- Languages
- 1