The Lady From Arezzo My Musical Life And Other Matters

Author: Alfred Brendel

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Price : 27.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780571353729
Publisher : Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Imprint : Faber & Faber Fiction
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Publication date : 01 January 2020
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Author : Alfred Brendel
Bind : Hardback
Edition : 2001
Pages : 136
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The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. Who is this strange lady? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? What is she looking at?

The mannequin was purchased and now graces a room in the attic of Brendel's house in Hampstead. Her features convey great artistic seriousness in combination with absurd comedy: the epitome of his own musical and literary preferences. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.