Biographies


Please share your favorite biographies of composers, singers, performers, songwriters, etc.

I am on page 111 of Thayer's life of Beethoven. 

(And a book on Evangelical Theology.)
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Ervin Nyiregyhazi Lost genius by Kevin Bazzana

Married to 10 wives, described by Shoenberg in a letter to Klemperer to be out of any comparison...

Nobody play like him and no one will in the future someone said and it is true....Never practice because too poor to own a piano most of his life.... Quit his career of concertist after 35 years old (he hated concert because his mother exhibit him up to sixteen years like Liszt reincarnated and indeed he was)....Lived with poverty composing only in his head hundred of compositions (unknown to me)... Became famous another time after 74 years old reluctantly trying a concert to save his tenth wife from cancer...
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Listen to him playing Liszt....Even the greatest sound only like students compared to him....Take the Vallee of Obermann and compare it with Richter version or Horowitz....They sound like applied children searching appraisal beside a god descent in an abyss....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLk6vqaxU1Y


My favorite pianist with Vladimir Sofronisky playing Scriabin in particular and Ivan Moravec playing anything ...
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