Overview
Examines the career of Yella Pessl, a Bach specialist, virtuoso harpsichordist and pianist, authority on seventeenth and eighteenth century Baroque keyboard music which she wrote about and edited. It discusses her early years in Vienna; her American debut; the Bach Circle which she founded; presents four of her articles on keyboard music; includes interviews; recollections of Alexander Wunderer, her teacher; and a section on her musical sister who lived in Austria under Hitler's reign. It brings to light Pessl's disorganized years, life in mental institutions, and complete recovery.
- | Author: Catherine Dower
- | Publisher: Em Texts
- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1993
- | Number of Pages: 258 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0773408533
- | ISBN-13: 9780773408531
