The Controversial Life and Career of Wilhelm Furtwängler
by
Sam H. Shirakawa
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1992
From 1922 until his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwängler was the foremost cultural music figure of the German-speaking world, conductor of both the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras. But a cloud still hangs over his reputation, despite his undeniable brilliance as a musician, because of a fatal...