Book

The story of Alba Rosa Viëtor

ISBN 9789087230067

The book, including her other writings, catalogue of her works, critics and theoretical analyses can be ordered by: info@albarosavietor.com
and by payment of € 24.50 plus €3 for shipping in the Netherlands and €10 for shipping in Europe on account-number: 53.72.07.163 of the

Alba Rosa Viëtor Foundation

IBAN: NL14ABNA0537207163
BIC: ABNANL2A

Contents:

Authors and editors:
Alba Rosa Viëtor(+1979)
Hendrik Vietor
Mary van Veen-Viëtor
Walter Winkler
RobijnTilanus
Peter Fraser MacDonald DMA
Paul Janssen
Tom Collingridge
Publisher: Alba Rosa Viëtor Foundation

 

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In this fascinating personal account of a rich life dedicated to music, Alba Rosa Viëtor’s warm, humorous style vividly evokes the events of a life that spanned ninety years. We follow this resolute, passionate and quietly witty concert violinist and later composer on a life’s journey that divides itself over three continents. From a nineteenth century Italian conservatoire to fin de siècle South America, from the glamour of Berlin, Paris and suffragette London on the eve of the First World War to the Great Depression years lived out in a New Jersey suburb. This is a story told on a human scale but set against the dramatic backdrop of the major events of the last century.
Though a respected musician and composer, who enjoyed her fair share of fame on a modest scale, Alba Rosa Vietor will likely never be more than a footnote in musical history. But that is precisely what makes her story so fascinating. The story of a woman of exceptional musical talent, who lived her life to the full and gave all she had to her music and to her friends and family. It is a life at once ordinary and extraordinary. This is the story not of remote genius, but of someone who made the most of life and of the considerably talents she was given, and in many ways that makes it all the more inspiring.

 

Also available at:
Museumshop The Hermitage, Amsterdam
Music Bookshop Broekmans en van Poppel, Amsterdam
Music Bookshop Albersen, Den Haag
Bookshop Osinga, Nunspeet

Music Bookshop Bergmann, Arnhem
The Royal Conservatory of The Hague

(in the library)

Entirely self-sufficient with my music (Alba Rosa Viëtor)