Harvey Sachs

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Harvey Sachs, (born 1946), the US-Canadian writer, has written a number of books on musical subjects, most notably the standard biography of and a book of essays on the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, plus an edited collection of Toscanini's letters. These books include:

Sachs, Harvey, Toscanini, Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1978 (the best biography by far).
Sachs, Harvey, Reflections on Toscanini, New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.
Sachs, Harvey,ed., The Letters of Arturo Toscanini, New York: Knopf, 2002.

Sachs has also written a book on great musical virtuosi, a history of music in Italy during the fascist period, and the definitive biography of Arthur Rubinstein, clarifying many of the inaccuracies contained in Rubinstein's two memoirs. And he co-authored the memoirs of Plácido Domingo (Domingo, Plácido, My First Forty Years, New York, Knopf, 1983) and Sir Georg Solti (Solti, Georg, Memoirs, New York, Knopf, 1997).

Sachs, Harvey, Virtuoso, London, New York: Thames & Hudson, 1982.
Sachs, Harvey, Music in Fascist Italy, New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.
Sachs, Harvey, Rubinstein: A Life, New York: Grove Press, 1995.

He has written over 500 articles and other pieces for various periodicals (including the New Yorker, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal), record companies (Deutsche Grammophon, RCA/BMG, etc.), and others, and many radio and television programs.