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Harvey Sachs

Harvey Sachs is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including Toscanini and Music in Fascist Italy. He lives in New York City and is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Harvey Sachs

Harvey Sachs is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including Toscanini and Music in Fascist Italy. He lives in New York City and is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Books by Harvey Sachs

  • Toscanini: Musician of Conscience

    Harvey Sachs

    Hardback, 2017

    On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of conductor Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life was unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.
  • Toscanini: Musician of Conscience

    Harvey Sachs

    Paperback, 2018

    On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of conductor Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life was unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.
  • Ten Masterpieces of Music

    Harvey Sachs

    Hardback, 2021

    Some pieces of music survive; most fall into oblivion. What gives the ten masterpieces selected for this book their extraordinary vitality?
  • Toscanini: Musician of Conscience

    Harvey Sachs

    E Book, 2017

    On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of conductor Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life was unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.
  • Ten Masterpieces of Music

    Harvey Sachs

    E Book, 2021

    Some pieces of music survive; most fall into oblivion. What gives the ten masterpieces selected for this book their extraordinary vitality?
  • Schoenberg: Why He Matters

    Harvey Sachs

    Hardback, 2023

    An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers
  • Schoenberg: Why He Matters

    Harvey Sachs

    E Book

    An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers
  • Schoenberg: Why He Matters

    Harvey Sachs

    Paperback, 2025

    An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers