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 Down a Path of Wonder: Memoirs of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Other Cultural FiguresBest Price: $24.99 |  Mendelssohn: His Life and MusicBest Price: $17.06 Mendelssohn is one of the world's best-loved composers. His greatest music The Hebrides, the... |  Handel's Operas, 1726-1741Best Price: $110.76 Handel ranks with Monteverdi, Mozart and Verdi among the supreme masters of opera, yet between... |  Tragic Manhood And Democracy: Verdi's Voice And The Power Of Musical ArtBest Price: $22.53 What is tragedy? This work argues that it is, at once, art and science - an absorbing art and... |  Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy (Great Voices 7)Best Price: $45.00 Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy by Armando Cesari is a must read to know the real Lanza,... |
 Mozart mini: A Biographical KaleidoscopeBest Price: $3.88 For the Mozart Year 2006: this earBOOK is divided into entertaining, easy-to-understand... |  Vida de Bellini (Spanish Edition)Best Price: $17.34 'A sigh in dancing pumps' was Heine's view of Bellini. His physical beauty,... |  Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the UnconsciousTwo early twentieth-century operas -- Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande (1902) and... |  Gluck: An Eighteenth-Century Portrait in Letters and DocumentsThis book brings together a variety of eighteenth century sources--principally letters to and... |  Yehudi Menuhin: A LifeBest Price: $8.00 The definitive biography of American-born Yehudi Menuhin, the beloved violinist, conductor, and... |
 A Beginner's Guide to BeethovenBeethoven is one of the central figures in Western music and has influence and inspired... |  Ludwig Van Beethoven (Life and Works (Naxos))Best Price: $27.35 For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. This portrait-in-sound... |  Moreschi (Life&Times)Best Price: $158.86 Nicholas Clapton has done an masterful job in collecting career details on the last castrato,... |  The Narrated Life History of the Expressionists: Charles Camille Saint-Saens, Ottorino Respighi, Jean Sibelius, Paul Dukas: Part IV: Modern (Classical Genius Composer) |  The Narrated Life History of Mid-Twentieth Century: Arnold Schoenberg, Edward Elgar, Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, Paul Hindemith, Olivier Messiaen (Classical Genius Composer) |
 The Narrated Life History of Felix Mendelssohn: Part III: Romantic (Classical Genius Composer)Best Price: $14.95 |  Bach: A Biographical KaleidoscopeBest Price: $26.61 J. S. Bach is known today as one of the greatest composers of all time. Bach , another book in... |  Richard Wagner Und Die Indische Geisteswelt (German Edition)Best Price: $63.04 The following remarks are made on the basis of reading the Swedish original, which equally... |  Rudolf Serkin: A LifeThis book is the first biography of 20th-century pianist Rudolf Serkin, providing a narrative of... |  The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi GermanyBest Price: $7.48 "The Holocaust has hovered on the periphery of the American imagination for so many decades... |
 The Wagner Companion |  Wagner and Russia (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)Best Price: $101.12 This book explores the immense influence of the composer Richard Wagner on nineteenth- and... |  Marian AndersonBest Price: $5.41 The biography of the great African-American concert singer Marian Anderson traces the story of... |  Halfway Home: My Life 'Til Now |  The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime AdversaryBest Price: $8.95 Now in paperback, the scandalous international sensation: brash, candid, and utterly hilarious,... |
 Women Composers: Music Through the AgesBest Price: $191.50 |  African American Concert Singers Before 1950Best Price: $49.95 This compilation of biographies and stories of African-American concert singers, some all but... |  The Romantic World of Puccini: A New Critical Appraisal of the OperasBest Price: $45.00 This is an in-depth look at Puccini's main operas, from a completely new perspective: that... |  Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination (Texts and Contexts)Best Price: $71.66 Wagner fans need to ignore a lot of ugliness to enjoy the operas, and this book forces them to... |  Musica Ficta: (Figures of Wagner) (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)Best Price: $12.69 This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of... |
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 Beethoven: His Spiritual DevelopmentBest Price: $8.18 This short masterpiece was written in 1927, probably to mark the centennial of Beethoven's... |  Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartBest Price: $2.97 Good to peek into his personal life. Interesting to interpret better his mind therefore his music. |  The Great Opera Stars in Historic Photographs: 343 Portraits from the 1850's to the 1940'sBest Price: $39.99 A GREAT COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OS THE GREATEST OPERA SINGERS OF THE PAST. IT SHOULD BE... |  Richard Strauss: An Intimate PortraitBest Price: $3.99 Many biographies of the most famous German composer of the 20th century have been written, and... |  Berlioz: Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness, 1832-1869Best Price: $16.83 This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy,... |
 George Gershwin: His Life and WorkBest Price: $40.69 Gershwin buffs, run, don't walk to get this book. Pollack has written the definitive study... |  Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)Best Price: $77.84 This book is a study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an... |  The Parisian Worlds of Frederic ChopinBest Price: $134.38 What pleasure it is to be able to sit down and write a review of a truly enjoyable book such as... |  Prokofiev--A Biography: From Russia to the West 1891-1935Best Price: $12.44 An assessment of the life and work of renowned composer, Sergey Prokofiev, in which David Nice... |  Cosima Wagner: The Lady of BayreuthBest Price: $23.95 What a woman! Daughter of Franz Lizst and Marie d'Agoult (Daniel Stern), Cosima, wife to... |
 Brahms: His Life And Work (Da Capo Paperback)Best Price: $12.75 I don't read a lot of biographies because I often find the amount of detail to be... |  Twentieth-Century American Masters: Ives, Thomson, Sessions, Cowell, Gershwin, Copland, Carter, Barber, Cage, Bernstein (New Grove Composer Biographies)Best Price: $19.99 |  Beethoven: The Man and the Artist, As Revealed in His Own Words (Dover Books on Music)Best Price: $3.09 This little book is nice to have for little snippets into the mind of Beethoven. There are... |  J. S. Bach (Volume 2)Best Price: $5.99 Volume 2 of 2-volume set. This stimulating narrative traces Bach's life; discusses... |  Delius as I Knew HimBest Price: $5.74 When he learned that the famed composer Frederick Delius was blind and crippled but still wished... |
 A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard HerrmannBest Price: $49.99 Steven Smith's study of the life of Bernard Herrmann thoroughly traces the development of... |  Berlioz: Volume Two: Servitude and GreatnessBest Price: $50.00 As a dedicated Berliozian since my teens, I've read several biographies on him in both... |  The Tristan Chord: Wagner and PhilosophyBest Price: $60.92 There aren't many composers whose philosophical views are of such crucial, and... |  BeethovenBest Price: $187.50 This is a great book if you want to learn about Beethoven's life. It gives you an idea of... |  Richard Wagner and the Synthesis of the Arts. |
 Mahler: A BiographyBest Price: $49.98 The Author describes, at appreciable length, why Gustav Mahler was widely misunderstood both as... |  Edvard Grieg: Diaries, Articles, Speeches ISBN: 0964523833 (Edvard Griegs Briefwechsel / Herausgegeben Von Klaus Henning)Best Price: $48.00 |  Johannes BrahmsBest Price: $11.66 THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great:... |  Among the Great Masters of Music (Large Print Edition)Best Price: $13.70 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was... |  Mozart (Library Edition)Best Price: $67.64 [Read by Wanda McCaddon] Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this... |
 Glenn Gould: Music and MindBest Price: $25.00 I read this book when it was first published by the Author. His comments concerning one of the... |  Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship (Eastman Studies in Music)Best Price: $41.49 Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht was a conductor, and composer. His friendship with Claude... |  Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic StageBest Price: $93.61 This book was first published in 2009. This fascinating study of ethnic theatrical... |  Richard Strauss: A Master Musicians Biography (Master Musicians (Schirmer))Best Price: $10.94 Michael Kennedy has written a very useful and insightful biography of a controversial composer,... |  Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age"Best Price: $53.99 Robert Schumann (b. June 8 1810, d. July 29 1856) Herald of a New Poetic Age, by: John Daverio.... |
 Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American MusicBest Price: $3.98 Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female... |  Mendelssohn: A Life in MusicBest Price: $21.46 Felix Mendelssohn lived only thirty-eight years (Feb 1809- Nov 1847) and yet he had a profound... |  Gï¿1/2recki (Oxford Studies of Composers)Best Price: $35.98 This book is an excellent guide to the complete oeuvre of Henryk Gorecki. It covers... |  Franz Schubert: A BiographyIn his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of... |  Britten (Master Musicians)Best Price: $101.51 Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate... |
 Fine and Dandy: The Life and Work of Kay SwiftBest Price: $3.98 George Gershwin counted among his friends many gifted and remarkable people. Musical greats... |  The New Grove HaydnBest Price: $5.00 The son of an 18th century Austrian wheelwright, Haydn is acknowledged for refining the symphony... |  The Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem 1951-1961Best Price: $22.12 |  Mimi's LifeBest Price: $4.94 When Mimi was three years old, her father took his wife and three young children to Iran.... |  Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician (Volume 2)Best Price: $33.11 Volume: 2 Publisher: London; New York, Novello, Ewer |
 The Life Of ChopinBest Price: $26.21 Penned by Chopin's longtime friend and lover, Franz Liszt, "The Life of Chopin"... |  Mozart: The Man and the Artist; as Revealed in His Own WordsBest Price: $11.64 Translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel |  Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own WordsBest Price: $88.99 |  Claude Debussy - His Life And WorksBest Price: $44.45 CLAUDE DEBUSSY- HIS LIFE AND WORKS Translated from the French by MAIRE and GRACE O BRIEN.... |  MozartBest Price: $20.92 [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] [Read by Wanda McCaddon] Realistic, moving, engrossing,... |
 A Millennium of Praise (Hymn Writers Series)Best Price: $11.99 This book is for all those who love the great hymns of the faith. Herein you will find the... |  Essays on Handel and Italian OperaBest Price: $44.00 In this valuable collection of essays, published to coincide with the tercentenary of... |  Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards (Canto original series)Best Price: $10.00 The previous reviewer did an excellent job in describing this book but I must give the book five... |  Life of ChopinBest Price: $26.96 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was... |  My Musical LifeIt is almost never that a CD of music of Rimsky-Korsakov or any of the Russian five does not... |
 Puccini (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)Best Price: $12.99 This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. ... |  Britten (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)Best Price: $5.99 Britten was a major pioneer of English Chamber Opera and was the creator of some of the most... |  Twilight of the Gods (Die Gotterdammerung): English National Opera Guide 31 (English National Opera Guides)Best Price: $16.75 Best translation of this work. Useful notes and essays. Highest recommendation. |  Maurice Ravel (20th Century Composers)The Amazon description for this book is laughable as the intro begins with this sentence: ... |  The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of PowerBest Price: $46.88 Lebrecht writes trenchantly about the music business. Many of his observations are carefully... |
 Ivor Novello: Screen IdolThis volume examines how British film magazines shaped Novello's star persona, while... | ||||
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