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San Francisco Symphony. Carl Michael Alfred Steinberg (4 October 1928 – 26 July 2009) was an American music critic and author who specialized in classical music. [1] He was best known, according to San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman, for "the illuminating, witty and often deeply personal notes he wrote for the San Francisco ...
Michael Steinberg, an influential classical music critic, teacher, lecturer and author, and the pre-eminent program annotator of his day, died on Sunday in Edina, Minn., outside Minneapolis,...
Jul 27, 2009 · Michael Steinberg, one of classical music's most insightful and readable critics, died Sunday of cancer at his home in Minneapolis. He was 80.
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Jul 27, 2009 · Michael Steinberg, who combined a lifelong love of music with a virtuosic literary gift through a six-decade career as a music critic, program annotator, essayist and educator, died Sunday...
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Jul 27, 2009 · Steinberg, who died Sunday at age 80, wrote memorably in that essay about music and talking about music, exercising his lifelong vocation and art: Tristan und Isolde , the very symbol for all that is recklessly emotional in music, depends for its effect on presenting a dissonance 15 seconds into the piece and refusing to melt it into consonance ...
Michael Steinberg, American musicologist, was one of the finest writers on classical music of this or any age and a teacher and communicator whose knowledge and passion inspired the lives of countless people.
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Jul 26, 2009 · Photo: Jorja Fleezanis. Eminent music critic Michael Steinberg died Sunday of cancer. He was 80. Even in classical music, a world where people are often praised as giants, Steinberg stood...
