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Article: Last prodigy: a biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
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- Opera Canada
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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BRENDAN G. CARROLL. AMADEUS PRESS; 464 pp.
LAST YEAR MARKED THE CENTENNIAL OF THE birth of Viennese composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. To coincide with this event, Amadeus Press published this important new biography, the first major study of the composer to appear in English. Written by Brendan G. Carroll (cofounder of the international Korngold Society), this biography is the result of nearly 25 years of research. While Carroll's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious, it occasionally borders on the idolatrous. That said, however, this is by no means a hagiography. Instead, it provides much needed information about, and insight into, one of the most ...