More Than Singing

Reprint of the 1945 Boosey & Hawkes edition.  As the title suggests, More Than Singing concerns not only music and proper vocal techniques but also life and the transcendent power of art.  Lotte Lehmann was among the most eminent lyric-dramatic sopranos of the early twentieth century, especially noted for her passionate and sensitive renderings of lieder.  In this guide she distills a lifetime of work, research, and experience into concise, revealing lessons in the interpretation of songs by Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Haydn, Beethoven, Strauss, Mahler, Debussy, and other masters.  Paperback, 192 p.