Bernard Heinze: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Sir Bernard Heinze was the towering figure who shaped the course of classical music in Australia throughout the twentieth century, and Thérèse Radic's authoritative biography presents the full arc of this remarkable life with clarity, passion, and scholarly precision. From his formative years of study in London, Paris, and Brussels to his pivotal role as the Ormond Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne and his legendary tenure as conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Radic chronicles how Heinze almost single-handedly built the infrastructure of serious musical culture in a young nation. Radic brings to this portrait a musicologist's rigour and a storyteller's instinct, illuminating the contradictions of a man who was simultaneously visionary and imperious, beloved and fiercely contested. The biography situates Heinze within the broader cultural ambitions of a nation striving to define its artistic identity on the world stage, raising the compelling question of whether a culture can be willed into greatness by sheer force of personality — and what is lost when that personality departs.
Author: Thérèse Radic
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Sir Bernard Heinze was the towering figure who shaped the course of classical music in Australia throughout the twentieth century, and Thérèse Radic's authoritative biography presents the full arc of this remarkable life with clarity, passion, and scholarly precision. From his formative years of study in London, Paris, and Brussels to his pivotal role as the Ormond Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne and his legendary tenure as conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Radic chronicles how Heinze almost single-handedly built the infrastructure of serious musical culture in a young nation. Radic brings to this portrait a musicologist's rigour and a storyteller's instinct, illuminating the contradictions of a man who was simultaneously visionary and imperious, beloved and fiercely contested. The biography situates Heinze within the broader cultural ambitions of a nation striving to define its artistic identity on the world stage, raising the compelling question of whether a culture can be willed into greatness by sheer force of personality — and what is lost when that personality departs.