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  • The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia

    Edited by Nicholas Vazsonyi ...
    Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in Western cultural history. He revolutionized not only opera but the very concept of art, and his works and ideas have had an immeasurable impact on both the cultural and political landscapes of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From 'absolute music' to 'Zurich' and from 'Theodor Adorno' to 'Hermann Zumpe', the vividly-written ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

    Edited by Mark Berry, Nicholas Vazsonyi ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Companion is an essential, interdisciplinary tool for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Wagner's Ring. It opens with a concise introduction to both the composer and the Ring, introducing Wagner as a cultural figure, and giving a comprehensive overview of the work. Subsequent chapters, written by leading Wagner experts, focus on musical topics such as 'leitmotif', and structure, and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • Beethoven

    by George Alexander Fischer ...
    Chronicling the landmark events in Beethoven's life, this book enhances understanding of the composer's character, inspiring a deeper appreciation for his work.George Alexander Fischer illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Stand Up Straight and Sing!

    A Memoir

    by Jessye Norman ...
    In this uplifting memoir, the acclaimed singer reflects "on life, the arts, and spirituality . . . Inspiring" ( Booklist).Jessye Norman is one of the world's most admired and beloved singers—and her life story is as moving and dramatic as the great operatic roles she has performed on stage.Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, she studied the piano and sang the songs of her childhood, never ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Great German Composers

    by George T. Ferris ...
    First published in 1878. Chapters cover: Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Web, Mendelssohn, and Wagner. ... Read more

    $1.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pavarotti Story

    by Guy Cavill ...
    Over the course of his career, Pavarotti never lost his enthusiasm for performing, and he devoted his last years to singing for charities and humanitarian causes - until sudden ill-health made it impossible for him to continue to appear on stage. ... Read more

    $3.74 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Verdi

    by John Suchet ...
    Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story.An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rachmaninoff: The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers.

    by Matthew Robert Walker ...
    In this biography, Robert Walker skilfully blends the fascinating story of Rachmaninoff's life with the historical background of his times. The author shows, too, how outside influences- the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the Great War, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression- very much affected Rachmaninoff as an artist. As well as the use of contemporary accounts, letters and reminiscences, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Sorcerer of Bayreuth

    Richard Wagner, his Work and his World

    by Barry Millington ...
    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • My Nine Lives

    A Memoir of Many Careers in Music

    by Leon Fleisher, Anne Midgette ...
    The stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era—an inspiring tale of triumph over crippling incapacity that rivals Shine.The pianist Leon Fleisher—whose student–teacher lineage linked him to Beethoven by way of his instructor, Artur Schnabel—displayed an exceptional gift from his earliest years. And then, like the hero of a Greek tragedy, he was struck down in his prime: at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers: Ravel

    by James Burnett ...
    Ir has been said that no music amplifies the french ideals of precision and good taste better than the work of Maurice Ravel, yet his background could scarecly have been more cosmopolitan. The son of a Swiss father and a Basque mother, he was born near St. Jean de Luz in 1875; he died in Paris at the age of sixty-two. His primary inspiration, and in consequence the character of his best music, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Haydn: His Life and Music

    by David Vickers ...
    Haydn was among the first great composers whose fame in his own lifetime endured after his death. While he is loved for a handful of popular, tuneful symphonies and the oratorio The Creation, the broader scope of Haydns musical achievements and his fascinating life have been overshadowed by the prodigious brilliance of his friend Mozart and the rebellious daring of his pupil Beethoven. This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD