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Now Available Franz Welser-Möst’s new book, From Silence: Finding Calm in a Dissonant World, was released in an English edition over the summer, after first appearing in the spring in its debut German-language edition, Al ich die Stille fand. The 180-page book explores the conductor’s views on music, his own career, and how art and music matter in today’s world.
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FROM SILENCE
After reading the newly released and highly readable English translation of Franz Welser-Möst’s book, From Silence, I have a whole new appreciation for his way of making music, indeed his way of life. . . . I see in focus where he’s coming from. He’s most frank in the beginning, about his young childhood, early experiences as a music student, and the devastating car accident that left a young Franz . . . severely injured and ultimately turned him from a violinist into a conductor. . . . He also invites readers into his rehearsals, in Cleveland and elsewhere, to understand his intellectual approach to making music. Music, he explains, does not exist in a vacuum and cannot be fully appreciated in the abstract.
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. . . The audience for From Silence is vast. It has built-in readerships not only in Cleveland, Vienna, and Zurich, but everywhere The Cleveland Orchestra is known. —Zachary Lewis, Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 10, 2021
