• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    and quickly aroused the opposition of the musicians. According to Harold C. Schonberg, in his 1967 The Great Conductors: "The great composer was impossible...
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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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    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-files-show-adolf-hitlers-daily-routine/ Harold C. Schonberg (June 4, 1973). "Fischer's Friends Wonder if He'll Play Chess Again"...
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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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  • " Not all early reports were uncritically enthusiastic, however. Harold C. Schonberg, reviewing a Carnegie Hall performance by Leopold Stokowski (on which...
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  • the cerebral suspense with which would-be World Champions live." Harold C. Schonberg, writing in the New York Times Book Review, confirmed that Tevis...
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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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    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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    Goes on the Air". The New York Times. January 12, 1930. p. 141. Harold C. Schonberg (October 24, 1961). "Opera: Fanciulla in Realistic Revival; Met Production...
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    January 26, 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. Critics (e.g. Harold C. Schonberg) and colleagues (e.g. Sergei Rachmaninoff) alike placed him among...
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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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    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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  • Dramatic Comeback". The New York Times. Retrieved November 2, 2023. Harold C. Schonberg (October 10, 1968). "Opera: 'Nine Rivers From Jordan' Has Premiere;...
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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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    Skidmore College Orchestra American music critic and journalist Harold C. Schonberg wrote of Tchaikovsky's "sweet, inexhaustible, supersensuous fund...
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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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    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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    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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