Horowitz

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A Biography by Glenn Plaskin Horowitz is an enthralling, all-encompassing biography-the first ever on the brilliant, illustrious, and controversial pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Glenn Plaskin's portrait reveals the full sweep of the musician's life, providing not only a detailed account of his long and versatile career, but capturing also the extraordinary drama and mystery of his personal life. "Plaskin proceeds to write with discretion, scholarship, and a sense of proportion. ... He is an honest biographer. Horowitz deserves no less." - The Washington Post "A well-researched biography that will throw much light on Horowitz the man and artist" -The New York Times "An absorbing, well-written and well-balanced portrait of a great pianist... as delicious as a good detective thriller" -Chicago Tribune "Vladimir Horowitz's fingers on piano keys have the potential disturbance value of so many sticks of dynamite. Yet so does Glenn Plaskin's biography - the first ever written about Horowitz."... Tovább

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A Biography by Glenn Plaskin Horowitz is an enthralling, all-encompassing biography-the first ever on the brilliant, illustrious, and controversial pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Glenn Plaskin's portrait reveals the full sweep of the musician's life, providing not only a detailed account of his long and versatile career, but capturing also the extraordinary drama and mystery of his personal life. "Plaskin proceeds to write with discretion, scholarship, and a sense of proportion. ... He is an honest biographer. Horowitz deserves no less." - The Washington Post "A well-researched biography that will throw much light on Horowitz the man and artist" -The New York Times "An absorbing, well-written and well-balanced portrait of a great pianist... as delicious as a good detective thriller" -Chicago Tribune "Vladimir Horowitz's fingers on piano keys have the potential disturbance value of so many sticks of dynamite. Yet so does Glenn Plaskin's biography - the first ever written about Horowitz." --The Miami Herald "Plaskin's effort is successful. ... It is done well, even masterfully." -Los Angeles Times "As a rule lives of performing artists tend to be a succession of public successes-and a bore! Plaskin's book avoids all the pitfalls; it is a carefully documented human story, an intelligent life that commands interest, attention and sympathy. I was fascinated from beginning to end." -Leon Edel "Authoritative and revealing, a bravura portrait of a bravura musician" -Justin Kaplan Glenn Plaskin is a writer and pianist who lives in New York. He received the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and studied for four years with Leon Fleisher in the Doctor of Musical Arts Program at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. His features have appeared in The New York Times, Playboy; Family Circle, and M magazine. Vissza