• Harold Charles Schonberg (29 November 1915 – 26 July 2003) was an American music critic and author. He is best known for his contributions in The New York...
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  • Building a Firm Foundation". Music Educators Journal. 32: 30–35. Harold C. Schonberg (November 4, 1979). "Birgit Nilsson – The Return of a Super-Soprano"...
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  • theatre Dietrich III von Schönberg, brother of Cardinal Nikolaus, appointed Bishop of Dresden-Meissen in 1463 Harold C. Schonberg (1915–2003), American music...
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    Wilkins (1893). Giles Corey, Yeoman: A Play. Harper & Brothers. Harold C. Schonberg (27 October 1961). "Opera: Robert Ward's 'The Crucible'; Work Based...
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    critic must have a very highly developed sense of fact". In 1971, Harold C. Schonberg, chief music critic of The New York Times from 1960 to 1980, said...
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  • composition for piano by Russian composer Mily Balakirev written in 1869. Harold C. Schonberg noted that Islamey was "at one time…considered the most difficult...
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    particularly the works of Beethoven and Schubert. Music critic Harold C. Schonberg described Schnabel as "the man who invented Beethoven". Between 1932...
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    domination of chess". The Mohave Daily Miner. Kingman, Arizona. p. B2. Harold C. Schonberg (30 March 1985). "Top-rated at 15, Girl Challenges Chess World"....
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    coloration for bravura.[citation needed] Many critics, including Harold C. Schonberg and Richard Dyer, felt that his post-1985 performances and recordings...
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  • died aged 94 of congestive heart disease at home in Palm Springs. Harold C. Schonberg called him a "super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class". Wild's memoirs...
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    recording of Bartók's Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. American critic Harold C. Schonberg praised Kocsis' extraordinary technique and fine piano tone. According...
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    admired. Another influence is apparently Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Harold C. Schonberg, in The Great Pianists, writes "...the openings of the Hummel A minor...
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    Retrieved 2020-08-24. Harold Schoenberg. The Greatest Pianist of His Time. New York Times, 18 April 1976. Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Pianists from...
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    some of the definitive performances of these works. In the words of Harold C. Schonberg: "His tone was like the morning stars singing together, his technique...
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    Bartok's Second Concerto under Boulez with the New York Philharmonic. Harold C. Schonberg wrote that he "had not heard a stronger account". Pollini also conducted...
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    unconscious longing for a freedom denied to him by his stifling marriage. Harold C. Schonberg likens Carmen to "a female Don Giovanni. She would rather die than...
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  • The New York Times. "N.E.T. Hits More High C's". The New York Times. July 26, 1970. Harold C. Schonberg (January 20, 1974). "Opera: The Ulysses of Claudio...
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    Rachmaninoff's Trio Élégiaque and Cello Sonata in G minor. American critic Harold C. Schonberg praised Moiseiwitsch's formidable technique and free approach to...
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    encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2022-02-05. Cf. Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Pianists Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Pianists, p. 284. Arbiter Records...
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    authentic recording by Lipatti of the Chopin Concerto was found. Harold C. Schonberg wrote in 1953 "Lipatti, a master of the keyboard, would have developed...
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  • also pp 85, 86, 94, 95, 146 and 157. Hollis Alpert, Ira Mothner and Harold C Schonberg. "The Pitching Wedge". How to Play Double Bogey Golf. 2nd Ed. Crown...
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    structure of a piece and revealed great clarity of detail." According to Harold C. Schonberg, Anton Rubinstein is reported to have said that "if Nikolai had really...
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    Bach's music, although he is not known to have performed it publicly. Harold C. Schonberg, in The Great Pianists, writes: "It also is hard to escape the notion...
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  • for orchestra and voices by the American composer George Crumb. Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times said of the work, "Star-Child…is sensitive...
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    being labelled as 'the Match of the Century'." Richard Roberts; Harold C. Schonberg; I. A. Horowitz & Samuel Reshevsky (1972). Fischer/Spassky: The New...
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  • divided, with some claiming to hear an authentic 19th-century pianist (Harold C. Schonberg wrote, "some critics wonder if Franz Liszt had been reincarnated")...
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    with her "walking bass" technique and Rupert Chappelle. The critic Harold C. Schonberg described the sound of the theremin as "[a] cello lost in a dense...
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    as "the new Schnabel",[citation needed] whereas NY Times critic Harold C. Schonberg noted that some critics and specialists accused the pianist of "pedanticism"...
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  • of storyline and structure. In his review for The New York Times, Harold C. Schonberg wrote, "Days of Heaven never really makes up its mind what it wants...
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  • The New York Times. Harold C. Schonberg (August 11, 1968). "Opera: Henze at Santa Fe". The New York Times. Harold C. Schonberg (August 16, 1968). "Music:...
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