a book
Understanding Toscanini
Joseph Horowitz · 1988 · 492 pages
Combining biography, cultural history, and music criticism, the author explores the cultural and commercial mechanisms that aided in the formation of the Toscanini legend and reveals Toscanini himself as a musicians' icon
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Yo-Yo Ma
“Joseph Horowitz on Toscanini helped give a social and historical context to the world of classical music that I encountered when I moved to New York as a child. The book gave me a way to see how deeply everything changed after World War II, how the immigration of European musicians to the United States helped shape the evolution of classical music for a good half-century and gave me my own musical foundation.”↗