Background
Osborne, Richard Ellerker was born on February 22, 1943 in Hessle, England. Son of William Harold and Georgina Mary (Farrow) Osborne.
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Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music
(One of the greatest and most celebrated performing artist...)
One of the greatest and most celebrated performing artists of the twentieth century, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) dazzled, intrigued, and intimidated the music world. As the young Karajan told his brother, "Whether it's conducting, skiing, or motor racing, I simply want to be the best." Richard Osborne draws on his own extensive conversations with Karajan, interviews with those who knew the conductor, and a treasure trove of primary sources to bring into focus the flamboyance and flaws of an extraordinary musician as well as the turbulent international music scene over six decades. The author debunks many legends about Karajan, particularly those relating to his membership in the Nazi Party, which he opportunistically joined in 1935 to obtain a conducting appointment. While the decision haunted him throughout his life, Karajan's career flourished after the war. A jet-setting superstar, he once held, simultaneously, six of the world's most prestigious musical posts, including director of the Salzburg Festival, artistic director of the Vienna State Opera, and conductor for life of the Berlin Philharmonic. After signing with legendary producer Walter Legge, Karajan achieved international fame through his best-selling recordings. He also embraced the challenge of adapting to rapidly changing technologies, and quickly mastered each new medium -- television, vinyl LPs, tapes, and CDs. This comprehensive, well-balanced, and objective biography will stand as the definitive work on this exceptional maestro.
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Rossini (Master Musicians Series)
(Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as wel...)
Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39 operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which transformed Italian opera and radically altered the course of opera in France. His retirement from operatic composition in 1829, at the age of 37, was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man. In reality, political events and a series of debilitating illnesses were the determining factors. After drafting the Stabat Mater in 1832, Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of twenty-five years, before the clouds lifted and he began composing again in Paris in the late 1850s. During this glorious Indian summer of his career, he wrote 150 songs and solo piano pieces his 'Sins of Old Age' and his final masterpiece, the Petite Messe solennelle. The image of Rossini as a gifted but feckless amateur-the witty, high-spirited bon vivant who dashed off The Barber of Seville in a mere thirteen days-persisted down the years, until the centenary of his death in 1968 inaugurated a process of re-evaluation by scholars, performers, and writers. The original 1985 edition of Richard Osborne's pioneering and widely acclaimed Rossini redefined the life and provided detailed analyses of the complete Rossini oeuvre. Twenty years on, all Rossini's operas have been staged and recorded, a Critical Edition of his works is well advanced, and a scholarly edition of his correspondence, including 250 previously unknown letters from Rossini to his parents, is in progress. Drawing on these past two decades of scholarship and performance, this new edition of Rossini provides the most detailed portrait we have yet had of one of the worlds best-loved and most enigmatic composers.
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Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music.
(Signed with dedication by the author, shelf wear to dust ...)
Signed with dedication by the author, shelf wear to dust jacket, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.
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- Herbert Von Karajan
- Conversations with Karajan by Richard Osborne (1989-11-01)
- Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music by Richard Osborne (2000-03-30)
- Conversations with Karajan (In these interviews, completed in Berlin and Vienna in th...)
- Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music by Richard Osborne (2014-02-17)
Richard Ellerker Osborne
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, University Bristol, England, 1965. LittM, University Bristol, England, 1967.
Career
Head English, general studies, Bradfield College, Berkshire, England, 1967-1988; presenter, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio, London, since 1970.
Achievements
Works
book
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Conversations with Karajan
(In these interviews, completed in Berlin and Vienna in th...)
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Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music
(One of the greatest and most celebrated performing artist...)
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Rossini (Master Musicians Series)
(Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as wel...)
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Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music.
(Signed with dedication by the author, shelf wear to dust ...)
- Herbert Von Karajan
- Conversations with Karajan by Richard Osborne (1989-11-01)
- Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music by Richard Osborne (2000-03-30)
- Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music by Richard Osborne (2014-02-17)
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Conversations with Karajan
Membership
Chairman Music Section Critics Circuit, London, 1984-1987.
Interests
Connections
Married Hailz Emily Wrigley, January 18, 1986. 1 child, Harry.
