{"product_id":"a-wayfaring-stranger-9780520301832","title":"A Wayfaring Stranger","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eOn March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877−1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. \u003ci\u003eA Wayfaring Stranger \u003c\/i\u003epresents the final period in Dohnányi’s exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and his unique oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of émigré life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an in-depth examination of Dohnányi’s late works—in most cases the first analyses to appear in musicological literature. This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician’s life in the United States and skillfully illustrates Dohnányi’s impact on European and American music and the culture of the time.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Veronika Kusz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48275264504059,"sku":"9780520301832","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_c1934f05-05e1-40c7-bd7b-8d34f731ded7.jpg?v=1771305851","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/a-wayfaring-stranger-9780520301832","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}