Classical Biographies
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Gustav Mahler Volume 4
by Henry De La Grange  Publisher Comments When the earlier volumes of de La Grange's monumental study of Gustav Mahler appeared, they were hailed across America--in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications--as an indispensable portrait of one of the...
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Andrea Bocelli: A Celebration
by Antonia Felix Publisher Comments Like a force of nature, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli has soared to stardom and the top of the music charts with a voice that thrills the soul. Tuscany's most exciting and beloved export since Luciano Pavarotti is a phenomenon with an astonishing 30...
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Jean Sibelius
by Guy Rickards Synopsis Jean Sibelius (1865 -- 1957) is one of the most popular and prominent composers to have emerged from Northern Europe. In his native Finland he achieved monumental status, and his orchestral works are staples of the repertoire. For so public a figure...
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Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer
by Boris Berman Publisher Comments Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev’s work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer...
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Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation
by Lewis Lockwood Publisher Comments The string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, the signal achievement of andldquo;that noble genre,andrdquo; have rewarded the engagement of scholars, performers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. This book and its accompanying recording invite...
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Giacomo Puccini
by Conrad Wilson Synopsis Giacomo Puccini (1858 -- 1924), composer of such popular operas as La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, is most renowned for his gift as a melodist. With his final opera, Turandot, Puccini composed the last Italian work in the genre to hold a firm place in...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography
by Piero Melograni Publisher Comments Piero Melograni here offers a wholly readable account of Mozart’s remarkable life and times. This masterful biography proceeds from the young Mozart’s earliest years as a wunderkind—the child prodigy who traveled with his family to...
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George Gershwin
by Rodney Greenberg Synopsis This expert and colorful biography places George Gershwin's (1898-1937) music within the context of his frenetic lifestyle to show how a teenaged song-plugger from Tin Pan Alley became internationally renowned in a career that spanned a mere two decades....
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The New Grove Mozart (Grove)
by Cliff Eisen Publisher Comments A child prodigy who performed throughout Europe in his early years, Mozart excelled in every medium of his time, including chamber music for strings, the piano and concerto and opera. Along with his contemporaries Haydn and Beethoven, he is one of the...
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Edgard Varese
by Alan Clayson Publisher Comments French born New Yorker, Edgard Varese sound-tracked industrial society just as Debussy had more pastoral settings. Frank Zappa's boyhood hero, inspiration to The Grateful Dead, Chicago and Laurie Anderson, revered by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, Cage and...
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Bach (Life & Times)
by Martin Geck Synopsis This is one title in a series of short, illustrated biographies. They tell the stories of those who have shaped our present and our past, from Beethoven to Dietrich, from Einstein to Churchill....
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The Music of Light: The Extraordinary Story of Hikari and Kenzaburo Oe
by Lindsley Cameron Publisher Comments The most popular classical composer of our day was born with a medical deformity so severe that his parents had to fight to keep him alive. When the child of novelist Kenzaburo Oe and his wife, Yukari, was born with a herniated brain, the doctors...
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Berlioz Remembered
by Michael Rose Synopsis Berlioz's own memoirs have become a classic of musical literature, but they are inevitably self-regarding. Michael Rose's book presents the other side of the picture - the effect he had on other people, whether friends or enemies, supporters, critics, or...
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Violin Dreams with CD (Audio)
by Arnold Steinhardt Publisher Comments A richly detailed love letter to the violin, with a bound-in audio CD recorded by the author Arnold Steinhardt, for forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider...
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Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
by Russell Martin Synopsis Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By...
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Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric
by Tom Beghin Publisher Comments Haydn is the last major composer whose music was regularly discussed by his contemporaries in terms derived from the classical tradition of rhetoric. Within a generation of his death, that discourse had fallen from favor, but the historical...
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The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750
by Joseph Kerman Publisher Comments Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are among the...
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Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music
by Jane Glover Publisher Comments Throughout his life, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was enchanted, amused, aroused, and betrayed by women—his mother, sister, wife, sisters-in-law, female patrons, friends, lovers, and fellow artists—and he was equally complex to them. But...
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Charles Eliot Norton Lectures #1973: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
by Leonard Bernstein Publisher Comments The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the...
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Aaron Copland's America: A Cultural Perspective
by Gail Levin Book News Annotation Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York (November 4, 2000-January 21, 2001), this volume contains essays by art historian Gail Levin and musicologist Judith Tick. Essays focus on Copland's evolving...
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