Books of Furtwangler
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Books of (ex: by/on/about) Wilhelm Furtwangler
Based on Rene Tremine: Discography, Tahra, Frence, 1997
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1. Concerning Music: by Wilhelm Furtwangler
Translated from German by L. J. Lawrence
Greenwood Press Reprint. London. 1953, 1977, 96 pages, 14.5x22 cm
LC 76-5717. ISBN 0-8371-8665-X. FUCM
This book is Out of Stock indefinitely declared by
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (UK), info. updated 09/1997.
2. Daniel Gillis: Furtwangler Recalled, John de Graff Inc., Tuckahoe
1965,
& Meredith Press, New York, 1965, 2nd etition, 1971
/German edition: Atlantis Verlag, Zurich, 1965/
(superb recollections by many of the maestro's colleagues and friends)
3. Daniel Gillis: Furtwangler and America, Manyland Books, 1970, ISBN
0-8786-7079-3
4. Marcella Barzetti: Wilhelm Furtwangler as a Symphonic Conductor, in
"Recorded Sound",
July 1970 (magazine articles schould be another part of this list later)
5. Henning Smidth Olsen: Wilhelm Furtwangler: a Discography,
2nd Edition, published by Lee Schipper and the North American
Furwangler Society,
printed by Panjandrum Press, San Franciso, 1973
6. Peter Pirie: Furtwangler and the Art of conducting, Duckworth, Lodon,
1980, ISBN 0-7156-1486-X
7. Hans-Hubert Schonzeler: Furtwangler, Duckworth, London, 1990, ISBN
0-7156-2313-3
8. Curt Riess: Furtwangler, Musik und Politik, Alfred Scherz Verlag,
Bern, 1953
/English edition: Wilhelm Furtwangler: a Biography, Frederick Muller,
Lodon, 1955, 240pp/
9. Gisela Tamsen: The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and his Conductors
through changing times,
Wilhelm Furtwangler Society UK, Lodon, 1983 ( translated from Swedish by
Ingegerd Smith,
German passages in text translated by Peter Pulzer and Ingegerd Smith,
edited by John Hunt from
an article specially written for the first visit of the Berlin
Philhatmonic Orchestra to Oxford in May
1981, 35pp )
10. Wilhelm Furtwangler: Aufzeichnungen 1924-1954
/English edition: Notebooks; 1924-1954, translated by Shaun Whiteside,
edited by Michael Tanner,
Quartet Books, Lodon, 1991, ISBN 0-7043-0220-9/
11. Bertha Geissmar: Musik im Schatten der Politik (pages 14 to 154),
forward by Felix Aparhanian,
Atlantis Verlag, 1945
/English edition: the Baton and the Jackboot, published in UK by Hamish
Hamilton, 1944 & reprinted
by Columbus Books, Lodon, 1988, also published in USA in the title <Two
Worlds of Music> by
Creative Age Press, New York, 1946, & reprinted by Da Capo Press, New
York, 1975, ISBN
0-3067-0664-4 / (a biography of Furtwangler's Berlin days from
1921-1935, 434 pp, 11 photos)
12. Elisabeth Furtwangler: Uber Wlhelm Furtwangler
/English edition: About Wilhelm Furtwangler, published by The Wilhelm
Furtwangler Society
of America, 1993, ISBN 0-9639-0800-6, 175pp, 14 photos/
13. Fred Prieberg: Trial of Strength, Furtwangler and the Third Reich
/English edition: Quartet Books, London, 1992, ISBN 0-7043-2790-2/
14. Sam Shirakawa: the Devil's Music Master - the controversial life and
career of Wilhelm
Furtwangler, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992, ISBN
0-1950-6508-5, 507pp, 40 photos
15. John Ardoin: The Furtwangler Record, Amadeus Press, Oregon, USA,
1994, ISBN 0-9313-4069-1
16. Elliott Galkin: The History of Orchestral Conducting, Pendragon
Press, New York, 1988,
ISBN 0918728479
17. Furtwangler on Muisc: Essays and Addresses, edited and translated by
Ronald Taylor, (4 selected
from Verm鋍htnis and 11 from Ton und Wort), Solar Press, Hampshire, UK,
1991, ISBN
0-8596-7816-4
18. Roger Vaughan: Herbert von Karajan, W. W. Norton & Company, New York
and Lodon, 1986,
ISBN 0393022242
19. Robert C. Bachmann: Karajan, Anmerkungen zu einer Karriere.
Dusseldorf, Wien, 1983
/English edition: Karajan: Notes on a Career, translated by Shaun
Whiteside, Quartet Books, Lodon,
1990, ISBN 067940628X/
20. FURTWANGLER: Concert Listings, 1906-1954 by Rene Tremine (8-1/2x11,
68 pp., illustrated),
TAHRA, Frence, 1997
21. FURTWANGLER: A Discography by Rene Tremine(8-1/2x11, 56 pp.,
illustrated). far more
comprehensive than previous listings by Olsen and Hunt, TAHRA, Frence,
1997
22. Stephen Gallup: A History of the Salzburg Festival, George
Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited,
Lodon, UK, 1987, reprinted by Salem House Publishers, Boston, USA, 1988,
ISBN 0-8816-2315-6
(Furtwangler plays a major and compelling role in this book)
23. Norman Lebrecht: Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power,
Birch Lane Press, USA,
1991, ISBN 1-5597-2108-7
24. James Cammer edited: Great Conductors in Historic
Photographs:1860-1960, Dover Pubns, 1983,
ISBN 0-4862-4397-4
25. Harold Schoenberg: The Great Conductors, Simon & Schuster Press,
1967, ISBN 0-6712-0735-0
26. Nevile Cardus: Talking of Music, Readers Union & Collins, Lodon,
1959 (plain speaking on
Toscanini, Beecham, Furtwangler, Mahler, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg,
music critics and criticism)
27. Bernard Gavoty: Wilhelm Furtwangler (in Series <<The Great
Interpreters>>), editied by Rene
Kister, Geneve, Germany, 1953 (exists English edition) (with beautiful
pictures by Roger Hauert)
28. The Twisted Muse: Musician and Their Music in the Third Reich,
Oxford University Press,
New York, 1997, ISBN 0-1950-9620-7
29. Gunther Schuller: The Compleat Conductor (compleat = complete),
Oxford University Press,
New York, 1997, ISBN 0-1950-6377-5 (academically and professionally
analyse the details of
60-90 conductors' recordings by using scores of 8 works including
Beethoven Sym. No.5; 7,
Brahms Sym. No.1; 4, etc. )
30. William R. Trotter: Winter Fire, NAL/Dutton, USA, 1993, ISBN
0451177185 (A novel
about nationalism and Nazi, Hiterism. A story of a Nazi intelligence
officer, also a conductor, metioned his friendship with Sibelius during
the WWII and his
search of Sibelius's 8th symphony. Furtwangler appeared as a cruial
scene
and was devoted to about 10 pages.)
31. Joseph Horowitz: Understanding Toscanini; How He Became an American
Culture-God
and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Music, Alfred Knopf, New York,
1987, ISBN:
0394529189, (Reprint Edition: Understanding Toscanini; A Social History
of American Concert Life, published by Univ. California Press,
paperback, 492 pages, 1994,
ISBN 0520085426)
32. Yehudi Menuhin: Unfinished Journey, Alfred Knopf, New York, 1977,
(Reprint Edition:
Unfinished Journey; Twenty Years Later, Fromm Intl, 1997, ISBN
0880641797)
33. Clive Unger-Hamilton: Music Makers, Harrow House, 1979, ISBN
0810913275
34. Chris Walton edited: Wilhelm Furtwangler in Diskussion, Amadeus
Verlag, Winetrthur,
Switzerland, 1996, ISBN 3-905049-72-4 (this book is in German and
contained 7 articles, 5
in German and 2 in English, in the second part including a complete list
of Furtwangler's
compositions and writings by Dr. Chris Walton which is the only such
list at present, B5
format, very good quality of paper)
German:
1. Wilhelm Furtwangler: Gesprache uber Musik, Atlantis Verlag, 1949,
ISBN 3-7957-0270-4
(seven conversations with Walter Abendroth in 1937)
2. Wilhelm Furtwangler: Ton und Wort; Aufsatz und Vortrage 1918-1954,
Brockhaus Verlag,
Wiesbaden, 1954, ISBN 3-254-00199-0 (a collection of letters, lectures
and thoughts)
3. Wilhelm Furtwangler: Vermachtnis: Nachgelassene Schriften, Brockhaus
Verlag, 1956,
5th edition, 1975, ISBN 3-7957-0272-0 (a collection of short essays and
writings)
4. Wilhelm Furtwangler: Briefe, edited by Frank Thiess, Brockhaus
Verlag, Wiesbaden,
1964. 4th edition, 1980, ISBN 3-7957-0279-8, 12.4x19.5 cm, 327pp
(selected letters)
5. Wilhelm Furtwangler: Aufzeichnungen, 1924-1954, Brockhaus Verlag,
Wiesbaden, 1980,
ISBN 3-254-00208-3 (selected diary notes prepared by Elisabeth
Furtwangler and Gunter Birkner)
6. Friedrich Herzfeld: Wilhelm Furtwangler; Weg und Wesen, William
Goldmann Verlag,
Leipzig, 1941 (First Edition), 209pp, 30 photos
/A second edition was published after WWII, in the first one, all the
Jewish composers and
artists were "omitted", Goldmann Verlag, Munchen, 13.5x22.2 cm, 237 pp/
7. Bernard Gavoty: Wilhelm Furtwangler, in Collection Die Grossen
Interpretene, editied by
Rene Kister, Geneve, 1953 (with beautiful pictures by Roger Hauert)
8. Friedrich Herzfeld: Magie des Takstocks: Die Welt der Grossen
Dirigenten, Konzerte und
Orchestra (pages 85 to 98), Ullstein Verlag, Berlin, 1953 (about
conductors in general and
devoted Furtwangler to about 15 pages)
9. Schonen Kunste: Wilhelm Furtwangler; Der Musicker und Sein Publikum,
Atantis Verlag,
1955, 16.5x23.8 cm, 37pp (a public speech by Schonen Kunste, 1955)
10. Curt Riess: Furhwangler, Musik und Politik, Alfred Scherz Verlag,
Bern, 1953
11. Martin Hurlimann: Furtwangler im Urteil seiner Zeit, Atlantis
Verlag, 1955 (recalled
articles of Furtwangler's career and his connections with several big
cities by artists)
12. Peter Wackernagel edited: Wilhelm Furtwangler: die Progeamme der
Konzerte mit dem
Berliner Philharmonischen Orchester, 1922-1954. Brockhaus Verlag,
Wiesbaden, 1958, 1965,
ISBN 3-7957-0276-3
13. Bertha Geissmar: Musik im Schatten der Politik (pages 14 to 154),
Atlantis Verlag, 1945
/New German edition: Takstock & Schaftstiefel, Dittrich Verlag, 1985,
1996/
14. Alfred Einstein: Wilhelm Furtwangler: Von Schutz bis Hindemith.
Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1957
15. Karla Hocker: Sinfonische Reise; Konzerte, Gespache, Fahrten mit
Wilhelm Furtwangler
und Berliner Philharmonikern, Bertelsmann Verlag, Gutersloh, 1955,
12x18.6 cm, 71pp, 8 photos
16. Karla Hocker: Wilhelm Furtwangler: Begegnungen und Gesprache. C.
Rembrandt Verlag,
Berlin, 1956, 1961, 63pp (little book of reminiscence with 8 photos and
a facsimile written shortly
after his death)
17. Karla Hocker: Wilhelm Furtwangler: Dokumente, Berichte, Bilder und
Aufzeichnungen,
Rembrandt Verlag, 1968, 21x26 cm, 152 pp, 46 photos (a collection of
documents, pictorial
material and biographical details)
18. Karla Hocker: Die nie vergessenen Klange: Erinnerungem an Wilhelm
Furtwangler, Arani
Verlag, Berlin, 1979
19. Daniel Gillis: Furtwangler Recalled, Atlantis Verlag, Zurich, 1965
(superb recollections by
many of the maestro's colleagues and friends, 224pp)
20. Otto Strasser: Und dafur wird man bezahlt, mein Leben mit den Wiener
Philharmonikern,
Paul Neff Verlag 1974
21. Michel Chauvy: Hommage a Wilhelm Furtwangler, Lausanne, 1974
22. Elisabeth Furtwangler: Uber Wlhelm Furtwangler, Brockhaus Verlag,
Wiesbaden, 1979,
ISBN 3-7957-0274-7
23. Henning Smidth Olsen: Konzertprogramme, Opern und Vortrage
1947-1954, Brockhaus
Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1972, ISBN 3-7957-0277-1
24. Henning Smidth Olsen: Wilhelm Furtwangler: a Discography, lst
Edition: Nationaldiskoteket,
Copenhagen 1970, in Discographies Series No. 211
25. Fred Prieberg: Musick im NS Staat, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag,
Frankfurt, 1982 (about
Furtwangler and other musicians during the Nazi period)
26. Joachim Matzner: Furtwangler: Analyse, Dokument, Protokoll. Atlantis
Verlag, 1986,
ISBN 3-254-00123-0 (a pictorial book for 100 years of
Furtwangler's birth, contained 135 photos of Furtwangler, A4 format,
215pages, very good
quality of paper, attached 2 tapes for recording comparison including
recordings of Furtwanger,
Toscanini, Klemperer, Bohm, Mengelberg, etc.)
27. Joachim Kaiser: Wie ich sie ach... und wie sie saren, List Verlag,
Munich, 1985
28. Fred Prieberg: Kraftprob; Furtwangler im Dritten Reich, Brockhaus
Verlag, 1986,
ISBN 3-7957-0275-5
29. Peter Muck: Einhundert (100) Jahre Berliner Philharmonisches
Orchester, Hans Schneider
Verlag, 3 volumns, Tutzing, 1982 (about Leipzig Gewandhaus and the
Berlin and Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestras)
30. Johannes Forner: Die Gewandhauskonzerte zu Leipzig, VEB Deutscher
Verlag fur Musik,
Leipzig, 1983
31. Gottfried Kraus: Ein Mass, das heute fehlt: Wilhelm Furtwangler im
Echo der Nachwelt,
Otto M黮ler Verlag, Salzburg, 1986 (recalled articles based on Daniel
Gillis's Furtwangler
Recalled and Martin Hurlimann's Furtwangler im Urteil seiner Zeit)
32. Werner Tharichen: Paukenschlage - Furtwangler oder Karajan, Musik &
Theater Verlag,
Zurich, 1987
33. Berndt Wessling: Furtwangler; eine kritische Biographie, Deutsche
Verlags-Anstalt,
Stuttgart, 1985
34. Arnd-Volker Listewnik and Hedwig Sander: Wilhelm Furtwangler, Peters
Verlag,
Leipzig, 1986 (contained a detailed account of Furtwangler's years at
Gewandhaus)
35. Klaus Lang: Lieber Herr Celibidache - Furtwangler und sein
Statthalter: ein
philharmonisches Konflikt in der Berlin Nachkriegszeit, Musik & Theater
Verlag, Zurich
1988 (highlights the whole situation of the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra after 1945)
36. Per amore della Musica: Furtwangler, in Symphonia Nr. 17 (June
1992)
(magazine articles schould be another part of this list later)
37. Wilhelm Furtwangler in Diskussion, Amadeus Verlag, Winetrthur,
Switzerland, 1996,
ISBN 3-905049-72-4 (this book is in German and contained 7 articles, 5
in German and 2
in English, in the second part including a complete list of
Furtwangler's compositions and
writings by Dr. Chris Walton which is the only such list at present, B5
format, very good
quality of paper)
Publications by the Furtwangler Societies
I/ France: Societe Wilhelm Furtwangler (1969- ), President: Philippe
Leduc
1. Furtwangler in Frankfurt, by Herman Wendel and Philippe Jacquard
(1985)
2. Furtwangler 100 years, concerts list in Scala, Milan (1923-1954), by
Jean Sciorati (1986)
3. Furtwangler and France, by Rene Tremine (1987)
4. Furtwangler and Leipzig, by Philippe Jacquard (1988)
5. Furtwangler and the recording, by Philippe Jacquard (1988)
6. Furtwangler as composer, by Stephane Topakian (1989)
7. Furtwangler as composer II, by B. d'Heudieres (1990)
8. Furtwangler seen by the musicians, by Philippe Jacquard (1991)
9. Furtwangler and Italy, by Angelo Scottini (1992)
10. Furtwangler and BPO on tour (1924-1936), by S. Topakian (1993)
11. Furtwangler and Switzerland, by Michel Chauvy (1995)
12. Furtwangler, the last romantic composer? by B. d'Heudieres (1995)
- Publishing Newsletter twice or thrice a year.
- Philippe Leduc: le...@citi2.fr
II/ Japan: The Wilhelm Furtwangler Society Japan
- Complete concert programs (1925-1927): The Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra of
New-York under the baton of Dr. Wilhelm Furtwangler, 64pp, 1986
III/ UK: Wilhelm Furtwangler Society UK, Chairman: John Hunt
1. The Furtwangler Sound, First Edition (1982)
2. Furtwangler and Great Britain: by John Squire & John Hunt
( in part I of The Furtwangler Sound, Second Edition, 1985)
3. The Furtwangler Sound, Second Edition (1985) ISBN 0-9510-2680-1
4. The Furtwangler Sound, Third Edition (1989)
5. The Furtwangler Sound, Fourth Edition (1992)
6. The Furtwangler Sound, Fifth Edition (1996) ISBN 0-9525-8274-0
7. Gisela Tamsen: The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and his Conductors
through changing
times, Wilhelm Furtwangler Society UK, Lodon, 1983 (translated from
Swedish by Ingegerd
Smith, German passages in text translated by Peter Pulzer and Ingegerd
Smith, edited by John
Hunt from an article specially written for the first visit of the Berlin
Philhatmonic Orchestra
to Oxford in May 1981, 35pp)
- Publishing Newsletter every two months, latest Newsletter: No. 148,
Feb. 1998
IV/ USA: The Wilhelm Furtwangler Society of America (1989- ),
President: Dade Thieriot
- In 1992 Charles Schlacks Jr. published a book (146 pages) called
<Tanneck> but for several
reasons, it was never distributed. It is illustrated by numerous and
beautiful Sepia portraits by
Trude Fleischmann (1896-1990) from the Thirties.
- Publishing <The Newsletter of The Wilhelm Furtwangler Society of
America> quarterly, 7
volumns totaled 28 issues from 1989-1997 at present
- Elisabeth Furtwangler: Uber Wlhelm Furtwangler
/English edition: About Wilhelm Furtwangle, published by The Wilhelm
Furtwangler Society
of America, 1993, ISBN 0-9639-0800-6/
- http://www.wfsa.org/, Dade Thieriot: da...@wfsa.org
V/ Germany: Wilhelm-Furtwangler-Gesellschaft E.V.
- Werner Tharichen: Verinnerlichen- auf den Spuren Wilhelm Furtwangler,
58pp, 1994
- Broschure zum 25. Todestag (Eine Zusammenstellung wichtiger
Pressebeitrage und
Konzertkritiken, 43pp, 1979
- H. P. Schmitz: Erinnerungen eines ehemaligen Phiharmonikers, 16pp,
1985
- Otto Strasser: Wilhelm Furtwangler und die Wiener Phiharmonikers, 15pp
- Peter Wackernagel: Die Ara Furtwangler, 18pp, 1971
VI/ Hungary: Wilhelm Furtwangler Society of Hungary (1995- ),
President: Mesterhazi Gabor
- Keeping up their www homepage (http://www.fornax.hu/wfsh/), a
multilangual site including
discographies (Furtwangler, Nikisch, Muck), links, news and articles in
four languages.
- Currently contributing to the compilation of a book contained
Furtwangler's writings, essays
and a discography. They'd be grateful for any useful idea, advice or
materials such as unpublished
photos like the two on their homepage.
- Dan Karoly (Titkar/Secretary): da...@osiris.elte.hu
Rockenbauer Zoltan (Diszkografus/Discographer): p06...@mkogy.hu
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