December 29, 2020
Jarring notes: Horowitz is known to have undergone shock treatment in the ’40s to try and change his sexual orientation - THE HINDU ARCHIVES
Jarring notes: Horowitz is known to have undergone shock treatment in the ’40s to try and change his sexual orientation - THE HINDU ARCHIVES×
Author Lea Singer uses unpublished letters to draw out a secret relationship between Vladimir Horowitz, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, and his student, the Swiss pianist and composer Nico Kaufmann, in a book populated with delightful pieces of music
The Maestro, as Horowitz would have everyone call him later in life, took on Kaufmann as a student, his first; what follows is a period of intense jealousy, denial, anger, passion and even love