Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was considered by many of his contemporaries — critics, fellow musicians, and the public alike — as the greatest conductor of his era. He was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory which allowed him to correct errors in orchestral parts unnoticed for decades by his colleagues.

Books about Toscanini

• Contemporary Recollections of the Maestro, BH Haggin (Da Capo Press, 1989), a reprint of Conversations with Toscanini and The Toscanini Musicians Knew
• Toscanini, Harvey Sachs (Da Capo Press, 1978), the best biography by far
• Reflections on Toscanini, Harvey Sachs (Prima Publishing, 1993)
• The Letters of Arturo Toscanini, ed. Harvey Sachs (Knopf, 2003)
• This Was Toscanini, Samuel Antek, musician, and Robert Hupka, photographer (Vanguard Press, 1963, o.p.)
• Arturo Toscanini: The NBC Years, Mortimer H. Frank (Amadeus Press, 2002)