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Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
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Author:
Jeremy Eichler
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
August 29, 2023
An account of how the flowering of the European Enlightenment, two World Wars, and the Holocaust can be remembered through the poignant works of music created in their wake. Eichler shows how four towering composersâRichard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Brittenâlived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving, transcendent works of music, scores that echo lost time.
What The Reviewers Say
Erudite, passionately argued, and extraordinarily moving.
An engrossing recovery project.
Long and complex.
Profoundly moving.
