A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them

Genius and Anxiety von Lebrecht, Norman

Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler's every footstep from...

A man searches for his friend who has been missing for 40 years. von Lebrecht, Norman

This lively chronicle of the years 1847­-1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is "[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a...

Paperback edition of the lively history of Gustav Mahler, one of the most enduringly popular of classical composers. 'Barnstormingly readable.' Boyd Tonkin, "Independent" von Lebrecht, Norman

In "Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World", Norman Lebrecht untersucht das Leben und die Arbeit des berühmten Komponisten Gustav Mahler. Er erforscht, wie Mahlers Musik die Welt verändert hat und warum sie auch...

The Maestro Myth

„Ausgespielt: Aufstieg und Fall der Klassikindustrie“ von Norman Lebrecht untersucht die Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen in der klassischen Musikindustrie. Lebrecht analysiert, wie die Branche im 20. Jahrhundert florierte, als...