The Dresden Manuscripts: Unearthing an 18th Century Musical Genius Audiobook, by David Wilson Play Audiobook Sample

The Dresden Manuscripts: Unearthing an 18th Century Musical Genius Audiobook

The Dresden Manuscripts: Unearthing an 18th Century Musical Genius Audiobook, by David Wilson Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Stefan Rudnicki Publisher: Skyboat Media Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2015 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781504655439

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

26

Longest Chapter Length:

29:12 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

02:13 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

17:50 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

A fascinating journey to rediscover the music of a composer who was lauded in his day yet forgotten soon after, The Dresden Manuscripts chronicles David Wilson’s thirty-year quest to locate, reconstruct, and perform the music of Johann Adolf Hasse, a composer who, along with his equally famous wife, mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni, had close personal associations with Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, and Gluck.

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“Stefan Rudnicki’s able and professional performance helps to keep the listener engaged. His deep and craggy yet flexible and expressive voice is naturally appealing, and his skill is evident in excellent pacing, generally careful attention to nuances of the text, and an ability to convey feelings by voice alone. The narration is punctuated or occasionally backed by brief musical quotes, a welcome audio-only enhancement.”

— AudioFile 

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  • “Dr. Wilson takes us on an emotional and fascinating journey into the life of this genius and shows how even one person’s passion can make a difference in bringing back the lost treasures of the past.”

    — Vivica Genaux, world-acclaimed mezzo soprano

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About David Wilson

David Wilson, teacher, scholar, and conductor, is professor emeritus of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. In addition, he is artistic director/conductor emeritus of the Long Beach Bach Festival and the Camerata Singers of Long Beach. A graduate of the University of the Pacific and University of Illinois, he also studied conducting at the Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood, Massachusetts, and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. As a recognized expert in eighteenth-century music, Dr. Wilson has conducted hundreds of works of Bach, Handel, and their contemporaries.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.