Handbook of Conducting (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198161820)

Herman Scherchen (1891-1966), the distinguished German conductor, was largely self-taught in music. He played the viola in the Berlin Philharmonic (1907-10) and in 1918 founded the Neue Musikgesellschaft in Berlin. He was an ardent champion of twentieth-century music, especially that of Schoenberg, with whom he toured. From 1928 to 1933 he was in charge of music for the Konigsberg Radio and in 1933 settled in Switzerland and led for six years the Zürich Radio Orchestra. A number of Scherchen's classic recordings from the 1950s and early 1960s are again available, now on compact disc. Handbook of Conducting offers an admirably full and clear analysis of the techniques of conducting. First published in 1933, it is still of immense value to all students of conducting. It will be of interest as well to all musicians and anyone who listens to orchestral music.


Author: Hermann Scherchen
ISBN-10: 0198161824
ISBN-13: 9780198161820
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/15/1990
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.08w x 0.70d

About the Author

Norman Del Mar is Conductor and Professor of Music at the Royal College of Music. He has recorded extensively with English orchestras and written books on orchestration and instrumentation, as well as studies of Richard Strauss and Mahler's Sixth Symphony.