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  • The Lives and Times of the Great Composers

    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, political, musical, and cultural background of the time. Read the story of Bach, the respectable burgher, much of whose vast output was composed amidst petty turf disputes in Luteran Leipzig; or the ugly, argumentative Beethoven, obsessed by his laundry; or Mozart, the over-exploited infant prodigy whose untimely death was shrouded in rumor; or the ghastly death of Donizetti and Smetana. Read about Verdi, who composed against the background of t... [Read More]
    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: 0195222180
    • ASIN: 0195222180
    • ISBN: 0195222180
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

    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 become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history—almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943–1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and—eventually—one anot... [Read More]
    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: B015754S6O
    • ASIN: B015754S6O
    • Manufacturer: Candlewick Press

  • Music of the Great Composers

    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 pick the one that fits you best. From chorales to concertos to solo repertoire, Music of the Great Composers lets you customize your listening to broaden your understanding and love of music. You'll find: - Guidance for building a personal listening library - Fascinating insights into instruments, history, composers, compositions, musical terms--even simple music theory for the layperson - A lively guide to hundreds of masterworks--for hours of r... [Read More]
    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: 0310208076
    • UPC: 025986208073
    • ASIN: 0310208076
    • ISBN: 0310208076
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Zondervan

  • Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

    "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. Beer conveys the sexism and lifelong frustrations some immensely gifted creative artists encountered.” ―Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times As Heard on NPR's Weekend Edition “Absorbing ... [Beer] writes with rich detail and sympathetic insight about [these women's] ambitious, adventurous battles to overcome barriers to creativity."— Publishers Weekly"Savvy, sympathetic ... essential and insightful study of a woman’s unsung place in the ... [Read More]
    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: 1780748566
    • ASIN: 1780748566
    • ISBN: 1780748566
    • Brand: Oneworld Publications
    • Manufacturer: Oneworld Publications

  • Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

    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 research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. Fryderyk Chopin is an intimate look into... [Read More]
    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: B0796XDT9R
    • ASIN: B0796XDT9R
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers (Modern Traditionalist Classical Music)

    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 isolated exceptions to modern thoughts of composition―exceptions of little importance, treated simplistically and superficially. Music critic and scholar Walter Simmons, however, believes these composers and their works should be taken seriously. They are worthy of more scholarly consideration, and deserve proper analysis, assessment, and discussion in their own regard. In Voices in the Wilderness, the first in a series of books celebrating the "T... [Read More]
    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: 0810857286
    • ASIN: 0810857286
    • ISBN: 0810857286
    • Brand: Brand: Scarecrow Press
    • Manufacturer: Scarecrow Press

  • Johannes Brahms: A Biography


    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: B006NKMLAS
    • ASIN: B006NKMLAS
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Claude Debussy (20th Century Composers)

    A revealing insight into the life and works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), whose music formed a link between the Romantic and Modern eras
    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: 0714835129
    • ASIN: 0714835129
    • ISBN: 0714835129
    • Manufacturer: Phaidon Press

  • The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

    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 demonstrates that classical recording has reached its end point–but this is not simply an expos? of decline and fall. It is, for the first time, the full story of a minor art form, analyzing the cultural revolution wrought by Schnabel, Toscanini, Callas, Rattle, the Three Tenors, and Charlotte Church. It is the story of how stars were made and broken by the record business; how a war criminal conspired with a concentration-camp victim to create a... [Read More]
    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: 1400096588
    • ASIN: 1400096588
    • ISBN: 9781400096589
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Mozart: A Life From Beginning to End (Composer Biographies Book 1)

    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 travels throughout Europe exposed him to art, music, and education, offering plentiful opportunities for his gifts as a composer and musician to evolve and thrive. Despite his preternatural talents, the artist struggled significantly throughout his life, and he died in his prime. Explore the life of one of history’s greatest classical composers as his ambitions and remarkable skills catapult him into the highest aristocratic courts of the Age of En... [Read More]
    Best Biographies Of Classical Composers

    • ASIN: B078NCBT3B
    • ASIN: B078NCBT3B

  • Best of the Most Relaxing Classical Music in / Various

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    • UPC: 4532730
    • Rating: 5.0

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    • UPC: 2028106
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  • Best of Classical Kids: Johann Sebastian Bach

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  • For You: World's Best Loved Classical Piano Pieces (CD)

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    • UPC: 136781661

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    • UPC: 55848079

  • 《BBC Great Composers》: Mozart

    Welcome to visit Classical Museum to enjoy the Classical Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/classical-museum/id870490183?ls=1&mt=8 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsaʁt...
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    Great Composers: Episode 1 Johann Sebastian Bach

    Documentary on Great Composers Episode 1 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
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