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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023
THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR

Profoundly moving.'' EDMUND DE WAAL
A work of searching scholarship, acute critical observation, philosophical heft, and deep feeling.' ALEX ROSS
A rare book: extraordinarily powerful - magisterial, meticulously rich and unexpected, deeply affecting and human.' PHILIPPE SANDS

A remarkable and stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.

When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past.

Eichler shows how four towering composers - Richard Strauss, Ar

Times Echo

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 September 2023
      ISBN-13 9780571370535
      978-0571370535
      ISBN-10 0571370535
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      Non Fiction Biography Autobiography: historical, political and military Entertainment Art music, orchestral and formal music Music

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023
      THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR

      Profoundly moving.'' EDMUND DE WAAL
      A work of searching scholarship, acute critical observation, philosophical heft, and deep feeling.' ALEX ROSS
      A rare book: extraordinarily powerful - magisterial, meticulously rich and unexpected, deeply affecting and human.' PHILIPPE SANDS

      A remarkable and stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.

      When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past.

      Eichler shows how four towering composers - Richard Strauss, Ar

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