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Classical Composer Biographies eBook Series

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  • Chopin

    A Life in Notes & Préludes

    by AI ...
    Series series Classical Composer Biographies
    He could make a piano sing—and a letter sparkle with mischief.Fryderyk Chopin left Warsaw at twenty, expecting a journey. He never returned. In Paris he built a life through teaching, friendships and music that made his name travel far beyond the rooms in which he preferred to play.From a lively family home to the salons of Paris, from George Sand’s household at Nohant to a demanding tour of ... Read more

    $9.38 CAD

  • Mozart

    The Man. The Myth. The Music.

    by AI ...
    Series series Classical Composer Biographies
    Previously published as Wolfgang: The Man. The Myth. The Music. by Tom Connell.He could dazzle a court—and still worry about the next bill.From a crowded family home in Salzburg to the courts, concert rooms and theatres of Europe, Mozart follows the composer's extraordinary thirty-five years: child performer, ambitious composer, husband, father and fiercely independent musician.Behind the familiar ... Read more

    $9.38 CAD

  • Beethoven

    The Making of a Restless Life

    by AI ...
    Series series Classical Composer Biographies
    He wanted a life of his own. Making room for it took more than music.A court musician’s son leaves Bonn for Vienna with a farewell album, a few useful introductions and a formidable talent. There Beethoven builds a reputation at the piano, bargains with publishers and patrons, and discovers how much independence depends on other people.This illustrated biography follows the man through friendships ... Read more

    $9.38 CAD

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  • Mozart

    The Reign of Love

    by Jan Swafford ...
    From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

    The Learned Musician

    Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age.Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Mozart

    A Life

    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, this thoroughly researched study of the Classical composer deeply examines his life and work.Considered one of the most important music biographies ever written, esteemed biographer Maynard Solomon draws on a half-century of new information to provide an in-depth account of Mozart's family life, his passions, and his personality. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mozart

    A Life

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his musicAs he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s focus is on the music—Mozart’s wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation.Liszt once said that Mozart composed ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Beethoven

    A Life in Nine Pieces

    **WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography**NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS.'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an extraordinary life. Laura has combined the two - the genius of his music and the richness of his experiences - to shine a revealing light on our greatest composer' John Humphrys________________________ ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Mozart

    A Life

    by Peter Gay ...
    A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western historyMozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre of classical music ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Mozart: A Life in Letters

    Translated by Stewart Spencer ...
    A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Franz Liszt, Volume 1

    The Virtuoso Years: 1811-1847

    by Alan Walker ...
    Series Book 1 - Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic movement in music--has been the subject of literally hundreds of biographies, but it is only in the last few decades that the importance of Liszt the composer, as opposed to Liszt the Romantic hero, has been recognized. This new perspective has created the need for a fresh, full-scale approach, ... Read more

    Was $24.99 CAD Now $20.99 CAD

  • Franz Liszt, Volume 2

    The Weimar Years: 1848-1861

    by Alan Walker ...
    Series Book 2 - Franz Liszt
    The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt."You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books"A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three ... Read more

    Was $24.99 CAD Now $20.99 CAD