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Joseph Horowitz' s eleven previous books mainly deal with the history of classical music in the United States. Understanding Toscanini: How He Became an American Culture-God and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Music (1987) was named one of the year' s best books by the New York Book Critics Circle. Wagner Nights: An American History (1994) was named best-of-the-year by the Society of American Music. Both Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall (2005) and Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts (2008) made The Economist' s year' s-best-books list. In tandem with his Dvor k' s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music (2021), Horowitz produced six "" Dvor k' s Prophecy"" films for Naxos. His current "" More than Music"" radio documentaries for National Public Radio, heard bi-montly via the daily newsmagazine "" 1A,"" are an outgrowth of this activity. His forthcoming book, The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and the Cultural Cold Warrior, will deal with the cultural Cold War. The larger topic of all these activities is the role of the arts (today embattled) in American history and society. Horowitz' s website is www.josephhorowitz.com. His blog is www.artsjournal.com/uq.
"Praise for The Marriage: ""Horowitz is a master of passionate scholarship. His deep historical knowledge blends with his narrative imagination to bring to life the very air his characters breathed."" --Antonio Munoz Molina, winner of the Jerusalem Prize; ""Joe Horowitz's The Marriage portrays Mahler with more power and poignancy than anyone else ever has."" --JoAnn Falletta, music director, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; ""Where biographers and other musicologists have struggled, Joseph Horowitz succeeds brilliantly in revealing the inner Gustav Mahler in this powerful and moving novel."" --Richard Aldous, author of Tunes of Glory: The Life of Malcolm Sargent; ""If we want to get closer to the ""truth"" of Mahler and his music, if we hope to improve our understanding of the person and his creations, we need to acknowledge the role our imagination must play in the learning process. In the case of Mahler, the essential facts have long been known. What we need now are fresh attempts to conceive what further truths they might contain. Joseph Horowitz's brilliant novel reveals much to us about who Mahler was, what he accomplished, and how he related to his world. Readers will be as eager to study it as they would any biography, and they can expect to learn as much.""-- Charles Yuma's, Professor of Musicology, Penn State University; ""Persuasive and fair. It is refreshing to see this chapter of Gustav Mahler's biography from an American perspective, written by someone not automatically biased in favor of Europe."" --Karol Berger, author of Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche; Osqood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts, Stanford University"
