Korngold in America: Music, Myth, and Hollywood.
The article reviews Ben Winters’s *Korngold in America: Music, Myth, and Hollywood*, which reexamines the legacy of composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) by integrating his film and concert music within twentieth-century music history. Winters challenges prevailing myths about Korngold’s cont...
| Publicado en: | Notes Vol. 82; no. 4; pp. 564 - 568 |
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