One Finger Too Many - Hardcover

Brendel, Alfred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375502939 ISBN 13: 9780375502934

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1999

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Book by Brendel Alfred

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One of the world's finest pianists shares a collection of his poetry in which his "word machines" paint trenchant and vivid pictures of the world around him and of music. 12,500 first printing. Tour.

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vely slight volume is proof that not only good but excellent things often come in small packages. A master of the piano, Alfred Brendel here turns in a deft performance as poet, building fantastic little "word machines" of extraordinary tensile strength. We are drawn immediately into a fun-house world of suspicious but wondrous goings-on: The supernumerary index finger of the pianist in the title poem, we're told, sometimes pointed out "an obstinate cougher in the hall/or emerged from beneath his tailcoat/beckoning a lady in the third row." Elsewhere, Beethoven, disguised as Salieri, poisons a sleeping Mozart and skulks away clutching, forever, Mozart's greatest possession--the key of C minor. And the conceptual artist Christo wraps the Three Tenors on the balcony of La Scala.

These constantly surprising poems enchant even as they sting, revealing the light (and dark) side of Alfred Brendel, one of the world's greatest musicians. His followers will have to have this b

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375502939
• ISBN 13: 9780375502934
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 68