Music from Within

A Biography of the Composer S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté

Overview

A warm, personal memoir of one of Canada's best-known composers, this volume chronicles the remarkable life of Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté. Though she achieved recognition in Europe she really came into her own in the last stage of her life when she and her second husband, Ferdinand Eckhardt, emigrated to Winnipeg.

About the Authors

Table of Contents

Foreword
Editor's Preface
Early Childhood
Paris
Berlin
Sonia and Walter
Sonia and I
Vienna
Canada
Recognition
Sonia's Death
The Legacy of S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté
Epilogue: The Search for Sonia's Father
Selected Works
Index

University of Manitoba Press is grateful for the support it receives for its publishing program from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund; the Canada Council for the Arts; the Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage, and Tourism; the Manitoba Arts Council; and the Aid to Scholarly Publishing Programme.