诺贝特·埃利亚斯(Norhen Elias)犹太裔社会学家，1897年出生于德国布里斯劳(即现在波兰的弗劳茨瓦夫)，1990年在荷兰阿姆斯特丹去世。他是贯穿古典社会学与当代社会学的关键人物，一生致力于“人的科学”的研究，式图整俞社会学、心理学、历史学等学科，并以“形态社会学”来整合微观什会学与宏观社会学，“心理发生”层次与“社会发生层次”的问题。这位百科全书型的大师，一生著作颇丰，除本书外，主要著作还有《文明的进程》(上下册)、《宫廷社会》、《个体的社会》、《圈内人与圈外人》、《德国人研究》、《什么是社会学?》与《知训社会学论文集》(上下册)等，此外还留有众多手稿。2005年，19册的全集由Suhrkamp出版社出版。

Philosopher Mark Kingwell has taught aesthetic theory for ten years and knows how people struggle to articulate the way music works. He views Glenn Gould as a philosopher, someone who does his thinking with notes over time. A supremely gifted artist and Canada’s most renowned classical musician of the 20th century, Glenn Herbert Gould (born Toronto Sept 25 1932; died Toronto Oc...(展开全部)

One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity. A strange genius and true eccentric, Gould was renowned not only for his musical gifts but also for his erratic behavior: he often ...(展开全部)

Gould's writing on music was often as provocative as his performances as a brilliant pianist. This selection of essays includes pieces on major composers which challenge virtually every tenet of accepted taste and opinion. Other subjects include concert-giving, recording, and Barbra Streisand.

One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity. A strange genius and true eccentric, Gould was renowned not only for his musical gifts but also for his erratic behavior: he often ...(展开全部)

Since Glenn Gould's death in 1982, the pianist's extraordinary talent has won a new audience through the reissue of his most famous recordings. This volume, containing over 200 of his letters, covers a wide range of Gould's artistic activities: his detailed thoughts about the piano repertoire, his rejection of the stage for record, T.V., and radio work, and his views on Beetho...(展开全部)

La biographie dessinée d'un génie de la musique. Glenn gould, star planétaire de la musique classique, génie absolu et solitaire. Cette biographie retrace la vie du célèbre pianiste canadien pour tenter de comprendre sa personnalité cachée et en percer le mystère... Pourquoi a-t-il arrêté si brutalement sa carrière de concertiste ? Pourquoi est-il devenu une des premières figu...(展开全部)

"[Glenn Gould] marks a major advance in our understanding of one of the 20th century's most significant performing artists.... Ostwald is as engrossing a writer as any who has tried his hand at biography."—Ted Libbey, Washington Post Book World The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was a child prodigy and a musical genius whose 1955 recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" catap...(展开全部)