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Harvey goldman sachs9/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Harvey Sachs was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2019 he gave lectures as part of Riccardo Muti's Opera Academy in Tokyo and the Tokyo Spring Festival. He has lectured at many North American and European universities and cultural institutions, including Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, the University of Chicago, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, Boston University, Loyola University in Baltimore, the Juilliard School, the Colburn School, McGill University, the University of Toronto, Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Warsaw, l'Università di Siena, l'Université de Fribourg, the Smithsonian Institution, the British Institute of Recorded Sound, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and the Italian Cultural Institutes of New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Budapest, Warsaw, Copenhagen, and Tel Aviv. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he is a former Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic. Sachs is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He is a frequent contributor to the Sunday cultural supplement of Il Sole-24 Ore, one of Italy's most important national newspapers. Sachs has written for the New Yorker, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement (London), La Stampa, Il Sole 24 Ore, and dozens of other newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and record companies (his published items number over 750), as well as for the BBC, Arte, PBS, CBC (Canada), RAI (Italy), RSI (Switzerland), and other radio and television networks. Other books include the standard biography of Arthur Rubinstein ( Rubinstein: A Life, 1995) a history ( Music in Fascist Italy, 1988) two collections of essays on musical subjects ( Virtuoso, 1982, and Reflections on Toscanini, 1991) The Letters of Arturo Toscanini (2002), which Sachs compiled, translated, and edited and, as co-author, the memoirs of Plácido Domingo ( My First Forty Years, 1983) and Sir Georg Solti ( Memoirs 1997). Book Number Nine was, appropriately enough, THE NINTH: BEETHOVEN AND THE WORLD IN 1824, published in 2010 by Random House in the US and Faber & Faber in the UK four translations and US and UK paperback editions have since become available. Its predecessor, TOSCANINI: MUSICIAN OF CONSCIENCE - which replaced his 1978 biography of the famed Italian conductor - was published, also by Liveright, in 2017, to great critical success a US and UK paperback edition and an Italian translation were issued in the fall of 2018. The previous one, TEN MASTERPIECES OF MUSIC, was published in October 2021 by Liveright. ![]() Harvey Sachs, writer and music historian, has a new book - his twelfth - coming out in July 2023: SCHOENBERG: Why He Matters, published by Liveright (New York and London). There are now more than seventy editions in seventeen languages of his eleven other books. ![]()
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