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    Sep 30, 2021 3 minutes

    From Silence – Finding Calm in a Dissonant World

    Franz Welser-Möst

    Clearview Books 184pp (hb) £25

    This book is something of a hybrid. Part of its material is purely autobiographical, charting the Austrian conductor’s steady rise to prominence as music director in the opera houses of Zurich and Vienna and at the Cleveland Orchestra. Just as significant is the focus on the ways in which he has managed to surmount a number of serious setbacks including a near-fatal car. If the book’s structure seems a little ramshackle, it is somehow held together by his disarming candour and an overarching preoccupation with the capacity for silence to offer balm during troubled times.

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