Toscanini

Toscanini: Musician of Conscience (2017, W.W. Norton / Liveright Book) by Harvey Sachs, Curtis Institute of Music. A conversation with the author. On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life is unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians. It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscanini—recognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the…