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An exploration into the question of greatness in classical music In 2011, Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times Anthony Tommasini wrote a wildly popular series in which he somewhat cheekily engaged his readers to determine the ten all-time greatest composers. With his readers, Tommasini wrestled with questions of criteria. What made the greatest the greatest? Would a composer's popularity factor in? Should influence matter? What about someone whose range was narrow? And what do you do with opera? Readers went nuts. Commenters were inspired to make their own lists. Some railed against the elitism inherent to classical music, but then they raged when Mahler was left off the final list. Tommasini had hit a nerve, but he'd only just begun. Now in THE INDISPENSABLES, he makes the case for his own canon of composers--and what greatness really means in classical music. Classical music lovers have always cared about greatness; but what does it mean to be canonical now? Who gets to say? And do we have enough perspective on the 20th century to even begin assessing it? This book is Tommasini's argument for the composers he finds indispensable and why. To make his case, Tommasini

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Author

Anthony Tommasini

Publisher

Penguin Press, The

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594205934

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Biography, Memoir