Toscanini, Arturo 1867-1957

Overview

Works:	6,104 works in 10,118 publications in 5 languages and 65,587 library holdings
Genres:	Operas Live sound recordings Symphonies Biography Drama Excerpts Musical settings Symphonic poems Criticism, interpretation, etc Suites
Roles:	Conductor, Performer, Author, Arranger, Instrumentalist, Other, Director, Artist, Honoree, Dedicatee, Interviewee, Narrator, Librettist, Composer, Editor
Classifications:	M1500.V47, 782.1

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Arturo Toscanini

Toscanini by Harvey Sachs( Book )
Toscanini: an intimate portrait by Samuel Chotzinoff( Book )
Understanding Toscanini : how he became an American culture-god and helped create a new audience for old music by Joseph Horowitz( Book )
The glorious ones : classical music's legendary performers by Harold C Schonberg( Book )
The maestro, the life of Arturo Toscanini by Howard Taubman( Book )

Toscanini by George R Marek( Book )
Conversations with Toscanini by B. H Haggin( Book )
The Toscanini legacy; a critical study of Arturo Toscanini's performances of Beethoven, Verdi and other composers by Spike Hughes( Book )
The letters of Arturo Toscanini by Arturo Toscanini( Book )
Toscanini and the art of orchestral performance by Robert C Marsh( Book )
The Toscanini musicians knew by B. H Haggin( Book )
Arturo Toscanini by Paul Stefan( Book )
Toscanini and great music by Lawrence Gilman( Book )
This was Toscanini by Samuel Antek( Book )
Arturo Toscanini : the NBC years by Mortimer H Frank( Book )
Reflections on Toscanini by Harvey Sachs( Book )
Toscanini in Britain by Christopher Dyment( )
Tender is LeVine : a Jack LeVine mystery by Andrew Bergman( Book )
The magic baton; Toscanini's life for music by Filippo Sacchi( Book )
Arturo Toscanini by Tobia Nicotra( Book )

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Most widely held works by Arturo Toscanini

Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi( Recording )

73 editions published between 1937 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 755 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Verdi's last work is his only major comedy and one of his crowning glories. Judith Raskin and Luigi Alva are the enchanting Fenton and Nannetta who want to be married even though her father, Ford (Frank Guarrera), objects. Ford's wife Alice (Phyllis Curtin) is being wooed by Falstaff (Ezio Flagello) who is also interested in Meg Page (Mildred Miller). Fortunately Dame Quickly (Fedora Barbieri) is a match for Falstaff and teaches him a lesson

Concerto no. 1 by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky( Recording )

16 editions published between 1959 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 615 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Otello by Giuseppe Verdi( Recording )

68 editions published between 1947 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 471 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Arturo Toscanini played in the orchestra for the premiere of Otello and memorized all of Verdi's instructions and tempi; hence these precious recordings provide students and scholars with priceless information as the music dates from the time when Toscanini knew Verdi and knew precisely what he wanted

Pines of Rome ; Fountains of Rome by Ottorino Respighi( Recording )

21 editions published between 1953 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 435 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pictures at an exhibition by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky( Recording )

38 editions published between 1954 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 428 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Progressive rock adaptation of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition

The story of Arturo Toscanini by David Ewen( Book )

4 editions published between 1951 and 1964 in English and held by 422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For other editions, see Author Catalog

La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini( Recording )

42 editions published between 1946 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 419 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jan Peerce, tenor Licia Albanese, soprano Francesco Valentino, baritone Anne McKnight, soprano NBC Symphony Orchestra Arturo Toscanini, conductor Libretto included

9 symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven( )

13 editions published between 1939 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 416 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Symphonies, . n 1,. op. 21,. do majeur. Beethoven, Ludwig van

Concerto no. 2, in B-flat major : for piano and orchestra by Johannes Brahms( )

21 editions published between 1941 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 413 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Symphony, no. 9, in C by Franz Schubert( Recording )

20 editions published between 1948 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 406 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23 by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky( )

30 editions published between 1941 and 2009 in No Linguistic content and Undetermined and held by 406 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Symphonies nos. 1 and 3 ("Eroica") by Ludwig van Beethoven( Recording )

24 editions published between 1986 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 389 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi( Recording )

44 editions published between 1946 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 379 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This recording contains the complete opera sung in Italian. The book contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor

The art of conducting : great conductors of the past by Sue Knussen( Visual )

17 editions published between 1993 and 2002 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Features sixteen of the great conductors of this century in rehearsal and performance. Archival footage complements first-hand recollections of these conductors by some of today's most eminent musicians

Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dukas by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy( )

4 editions published in 2002 in No Linguistic content and Undetermined and held by 360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Aida by Giuseppe Verdi( Recording )

43 editions published between 1949 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 355 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Retells the story of Verdi's opera in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved

Vladimir Horowitz : Legendary RCA recordings by Vladimir Horowitz( )

8 editions published in 2003 in No Linguistic content and Undetermined and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

4 symphonies by Johannes Brahms( )

13 editions published between 1967 and 2003 in 5 languages and held by 327 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Aaron Copland by Aaron Copland( )

1 edition published in 2004 and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music critic Tim Page interviews American composer, writer on music, pianist, and conductor Aaron Copland. He comments on his career as a composer and about his new serious music style with an "American flavor." Copland talks about his early interest in music. He reflects on the influence of Nadia Boulanger, his music teacher in Paris, and conductor and composer Serge Koussevitzky, whom she introduced him to. Copland says Koussevitzky discovered him as a new talent and predicted his successful career as a composer. He talks about his piano works, and comments on his work with dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, and their resulting work, the ballet Appalachian spring. Speaking about the music he composed for this ballet, Copland comments on his fascination with the American West. He talks about one wish of his never fulfilled: he never met the composer Charles Ives. During his interview the excerpts from his Piano variations and Appalachian spring suite (the suite for complete orchestra) are played

The complete Philadelphia Orchestra recordings, 1941-42 by Arturo Toscanini( )

2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 313 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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