The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor\'s mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town.
And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music..
Her features convey great artistic seriousness in combination with absurd comedy: the epitome of his own musical and literary preferences.
Who is this strange lady? What is she looking at? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? The mannequin now graces a room in the attic of Brendel\'s house in Hampstead.
The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor\'s mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town