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The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
- ASIN: 0195222180
- ISBN: 0195222180
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
A grand and panoramic biograhical history of the giants of classical music, The Lives and Times of Great Composers is a new, unique, and lovingly constructed modern reference--and a beguiling read which you will return to again and again.Interlinked yet self-contained, each chapter distills the life of one or more composers, set against the social,... [Read More]
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
- ASIN: B015754S6O
- Manufacturer: Candlewick Press
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to becom... [Read More]
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Music of the Great Composers
- UPC: 025986208073
- ASIN: 0310208076
- ISBN: 0310208076
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Zondervan
Patrick Kavanaugh shows that great music was written to be enjoyed, not merely admired. In Music of the Great Composers, he displays his gift for making the classics easy to understand and a delight to listen to. This practical book lets you select a listening program that's based on your needs and interests. Choose from a variety of approaches to ... [Read More]
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Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
- ASIN: 1780748566
- ISBN: 1780748566
- Brand: Oneworld Publications
- Manufacturer: Oneworld Publications
"The cultural historian Anna Beer’s rewarding new book about the forgotten women of classical music includes insightful portraits of eight composers, a couple of whom are truly forgotten, like the 17th-century Italian Francesca Caccini. But penetrating essays on better-known figures, like Clara Schumann, are even more interesting for the way Ms. ... [Read More]
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Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
- ASIN: B0796XDT9R
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. The Sunday Times (U.K.) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist's Best Books of 2018."A magisterial portrait." --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book ReviewA landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of researc... [Read More]
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Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers (Modern Traditionalist Classical Music)
- ASIN: 0810857286
- ISBN: 0810857286
- Brand: Brand: Scarecrow Press
- Manufacturer: Scarecrow Press
Despite the Modernist search for new and innovative aesthetics and rejection of traditional tonality, several twentieth century composers have found their own voice while steadfastly relying on the aesthetics and techniques of Romanticism and 19th century composition principles. Musicological and reference texts have regarded these composers as iso... [Read More]
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Johannes Brahms: A Biography
- ASIN: B006NKMLAS
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Claude Debussy (20th Century Composers)
- ASIN: 0714835129
- ISBN: 0714835129
- Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
A revealing insight into the life and works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), whose music formed a link between the Romantic and Modern eras
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The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made
- ASIN: 1400096588
- ISBN: 9781400096589
- Manufacturer: Anchor
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan. Lebrecht compellingly demo... [Read More]
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Mozart: A Life From Beginning to End (Composer Biographies Book 1)
- ASIN: B078NCBT3B
MozartFree BONUS Inside!* * *Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a figure that is cemented in the annals of history as one of the greatest composers of all time. A fascinating and enigmatic character, Mozart was hailed in his own lifetime as a child prodigy and a musical genius. His trav... [Read More]
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
- ASIN: B00IRIR7IA
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled t... [Read More]
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Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the Piano
- ASIN: 1681774097
- ISBN: 1681774097
- Brand: PEGASUS
- Manufacturer: Pegasus Books
A rich and vibrant memoir that weaves chronic illness and classical music into a raw and inspiring tale of grace and determination. Andrea Avery, already a promising and ambitious classical pianist at twelve, was diagnosed with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that threatened not just her musical aspirations but her ability to live a norm... [Read More]
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Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
- UPC: 025986208066
- ASIN: 0310208068
- ISBN: 0310208068
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Zondervan
Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Messiaen . . . Men of genius as different as their music - but all inspired by deep spiritual convictions. Peter Kavanaugh uncovers the spirituality of twenty of music's timeless giants, revealing legacies of the soul as diverse as the masterpieces they created. Warmly writte... [Read More]
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The Noise of Time: A novel
- ASIN: B015VACH40
- Manufacturer: Vintage
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending. In 1936, Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his ... [Read More]
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The Vintage Guide to Classical Music: An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music
- ASIN: 0679728058
- ISBN: 0679728058
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond.The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated -- musical history and an insider's key to the pe... [Read More]
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Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
- ASIN: 030020535X
- ISBN: 030020535X
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Yale University Press
A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich—and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book... [Read More]
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Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
- ASIN: B01M65SDYP
- Manufacturer: Liveright
An “extraordinary” biography that “in its breadth . . . reminds me of nothing so much as Robert A. Caro’s The Power Broker” (New York Review of Books).Harvey Sachs’s “monumental” (Alex Ross) biography recounts the sixty-eight-year career of conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957), an artist celebrated for his fierce dedication, pho... [Read More]
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Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
- ASIN: 0802142532
- ISBN: 0802142532
- Brand: Tindall, Blair
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Gelsey Kirkland’s Dancing on My Grave, Mozart in the Jungle delves into the lives of the musicians and conductors who inhabit the insular world of classical music. In a book that inspired the Amazon Original series starring Gael García Bernal and Malcolm McDowell, oboist Blair Tin... [Read More]
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Gustav Mahler
- ASIN: 0300194110
- ISBN: 0300194110
- Brand: Yale University Press
- Manufacturer: Yale University Press
The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his death A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav Mahler has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources—some unavailable to previous biographers—and sets ... [Read More]
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The New York Times Essential Library: Opera: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings
- ASIN: B005E8AIAK
- Manufacturer: Times Books
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