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The Lady from Arezzo: My Musical Life and Other Matters

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The Lady from Arezzo: My Musical Life and Other Matters - Brendel, Alfred
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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 ...

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The Lady from Arezzo: My Musical Life and Other Matters 2019, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571353729

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