As a pianist, Rosenthal was unparalleled: his legato touch came from                  Chopin through his pupil Mikuli; his awareness of composition was developed by                  Liszt; his Brahms interpretation shaped by the composer himself; and his ingeniously                  crafted piano-paraphrases memorialized his friendship with Johann Strauss II. Yet                  Rosenthal's pianistic abilities were married to a rare intellectual erudition -- a                  knowledge of literature, history, philology, science, philosophy, and society that                  few pianists have ever matched, let alone surpassed. In these                  striking pieces, we see every facet of Rosenthal: memoirist, social critic,                  pedagogue, and virtuoso. He could write with gravity and pathos, yet his famous and                  sometimes devastating wit is legendary. This volume combines Rosenthal's writings                  with critical assessments of the pianist by such contemporaries as Eduard Hanslick,                  Edward Prime-Stevenson, and Hugo Wolf. It is rounded out with an illuminating                  preface by Charles Rosen, perhaps Rosenthal's most renowned pupil; a discography and                  concertography; and a CD featuring never-before-released Rosenthal                  recordings.

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