Jeremy Eichler

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 'A work of extraordinary power, beauty and human feeling.' Sunday Times, History Book of the Year 'Profoundly moving.' Edmund de Waal 'A most rare book: extraordinarily powerful - magisterial, meticulously rich and unexpected, deeply affecting and human.' Philippe Sands In Time's Echo, the award-winning critic and historian Jeremy...

When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. Eichler shows how four towering composers...