The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. Who is this strange lady? What is she looking at? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? The mannequin now graces a room in the attic of Brendel's house in Hampstead. Her features convey great artistic seriousness in combination with absurd comedy: the epitome of his own musical and literary preferences. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Maße
Höhe: 207 mm
Breite: 136 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-571-35372-9 (9780571353729)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Born in 1931 in Moravia, Alfred Brendel lives in London. He is an acclaimed pianist worldwide, universally acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century's most important performers of classical and romantic music. Although he has bidden farewell to the concert stage, he continues to give masterclasses and readings. As a writer, he has made a name for himself as an essayist and poet.
Introduction: A Mouth with Two Ears
Daniil Kharms
translated by Alfred Brendel
There was a Man
Anecdotes from Pushkin's Life
The Inventor Anton Pavlovic silov
Everything and Nothing: Dada 2016
Velimir Khlebnikov
Incantation by Laughter
translated by Paul Schmidt
Incantation by Laughter
translated by Vladimir Markov
The Lady from Arezzo
Charles Amberg
Ich reiß mir eine Wimper aus
Cabaret Song
translated by Alfred Brendel
Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words
Music: Light and Darkness
Schubert's Winterreise
Hans Arp
translated by Jeremy Adler
From Constellations
Ernst Jandl
translated by Jeremy Adler
Mountain Goat
Sentence Mixture
Schumann's Piano Concerto: Some Notes on Performance
Christian Morgenstern
The Knee
translated by Alfred Brendel
Das große Lalula
The Does' Prayer
translated by Max Knight
My Musical Life
Brief Nonsense Bibliography
The Authors of Nonsense Texts
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
