Horowitz His Life and Music

""On April 20, 1986, the wheel came full circle for Vladimir Horowitz with an audible click, and he recognized it as such."" "So begins this definitive biography of the most electrifying piano virtuoso of our times, Vladimir Horowitz, describing his return to Russia after a sixty-one-year absence." "From there, the book turns back to Horowitz's privileged and pampered childhood in Kiev, where he started to play the piano at the age of five. We then follow him through his tempestuous years at the Kiev Conservatory, …