Two Violins, One Viola, A Cello and Me
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The internationally renowned concert agent Sonia Simmenauer offers an exclusive insight into the working lives of some of the most important and most revered string quartets of our time. A must-read for music lovers and those seeking to learn more about the intellectual and emotional world of the string quartet.
Weight | 0.280000 |
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ISBN13/Barcode | 9781399934527 |
ISBN10 | 139993452X |
Author | SONIA SIMMENAUER |
Binding | Paperback |
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Date Published | 5th July 2023 |
Report Date | 2023/07/05 |
Pages | 160 |
Publisher | Harcamlow Press |
A string quartet is, at its simplest, four instruments – two violins, one viola and a cello, along with the four people playing them. But for those famous ensembles we admire on the concert stage, it is so much more than that. It’s the collective identity of four ambitious, passionate individuals, committed to sharing their lives and careers with each other, and to performing some of the most exciting music ever written.
For over forty years, Sonia Simmenauer has worked with some of the world’s greatest quartets as their concert agent, as their ‘fifth member’. With wit and subtlety, she describes the allure of the string quartet – and the pressures of rehearsals and performances, travel and money management. Life in a quartet, we learn, can be more intense than a marriage. In this captivating book, Sonia shares the thoughts of some of the outstanding musicians she has worked with and introduces us to the day-to-day dramas she faced as a concert agent. How do you free a string quartet that has been detained at the airport? And what happens when the first violinist forgets his trousers?
A classic of German-language music literature – now translated into English for the first time.