Horowitz : his life and music / Harold C. Schonberg.

"On April 20, 1986, the wheel came full circle for Vladimir Horowitz with an audible click, and he recognized it as such." So begins this definitive biography of the most electrifying piano virtuoso of our times, Vladimir Horowitz, describing his return to Russia after a sixty-one-year abs...

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Main Author: Schonberg, Harold C.
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Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1992.
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505 0 |a Return of the native -- Growing up in Kiev -- Novorossiisk, Taganrog, Gomel, Batumi -- A Greenhorn in Berlin -- Crashing through -- Parisian lion -- On the road -- "The octaves race" -- "King of kings" -- Marriage -- Disappearance -- In Horowitz's shoes -- and tails -- The lazy life -- Uncashed checks -- Media blitz -- Still the mastere -- The new Horowitz? -- Sonia -- Traveling à la Paderewski -- Anniversaries -- Collapse -- Resurrection -- Globetrotter -- Last pupil -- Mozart and Liebestod -- Artist-as-hero -- The Horowitz recordings -- Appendix I: 1926-53 -- Appendix II: LP and stereo -- Appendix III: 1965-82 -- Appendix IV: 1985-89 with a digression on Horowitz and Mozart. 
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