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"Throughout World War II, Dame Myra Hess, Britain’s greatest concert pianist, ran lunchtime concerts at London’s National Gallery. They became the stuff of legend, proving music’s power to support the human spirit in the darkest of times. This biography, the first in nearly five decades, follows Hess’s transformation from rebellious young musician into inimitably powerful woman and national heroine. Revealing much previously unpublished material, it encompasses her struggles for recognition, her beloved transcription of Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, her collaborations with towering musicians of her day and extracts from her vivid postwar American diaries. A unique, unstoppable personality emerges replete with generosity, courage, humour and sheer, unfailing ‘chutzpah’."[Bokomslag]