Toccata Press Musicians in Music

Dallapiccola on Opera
Rudy Shackelford, trans. and ed.
Hans Werner Henze called Luigi Dallapiccola ‘a rare example of a very complete humanitarian artist’. This volume reaffirms Dallapiccola’s enduring importance as critic as well as composer.

ISBN:
9780907689096

Experiencing Music
A Composer's Notes
Vagn Holmboe, trans. and ed. Paul Rapoport
Vagn Holmboe, 1909–96, was one of the most important composers of his era, and the most important Danish composer after Carl Nielsen. In a book intended for the general reader, he discusses the nature of music, from the point of view of the composer, the performer and the listener.

ISBN:
9780907689157

Havergal Brian on Music
Volume 1: British Music
Malcolm MacDonald (ed.)
Havergal Brian (1876-1972) was Britain's most prolific symphonist and also a music journalist. His articles, reviews, editorials, profiles and columns on contemporary events reveal him as a highly perceptive observer, with a startling breadth of interest and a fund of personal reminiscence, many of whose insights were well in advance of his time.

ISBN:
9780907689195

Havergal Brian on Music
Volume 2: European and American Music in his Time
Malcolm MacDonald (ed.)
In this second volume of selections from his journalism, written over four decades between 1907 and 1946, the maverick English composer Havergal Brian (1876-1972) directs his enquiring mind at the music being composed in France, Germany, Italy and elsewhere, while he and his British contemporaries were fighting to establish new music at home.

ISBN:
9780907689485

Klemperer on Music
Shavings from a Musician's Workbench
Martin Anderson (trans. and ed.)
Klemperer writes here about musicians he knew and worked with, dwelling on Gustav Mahler, who was a formative influence. He writes on composers from Bach and Beethoven to Schoenberg and Zemlinsky, on colleagues from Beecham and Toscanini to Ewald Dülberg and Max Reinhardt.

ISBN:
9780907689133

Szymanowski on Music
Alistair Wightman (trans. and ed.)
Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937) is now widely acknowledged to be the most important Polish composer since Chopin. He was also a considerable thinker on musical topics: the role of music in society, the goal of musical education, the purpose of criticism, the nature of Romanticism, the hallmarks of national identity, etc.