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  • The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn

    de Richard Wigmore ...
    Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously misunderstood. This engaging new Pocket Guide assesses what Haydn's music means to us today, and challenges some of the myths that have grown up around the composer. With suggestions for further reading and recommended CD recordings, Richard Wigmore's crisp and concise guide presents ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    de Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Handel

    de Edward J. Dent ...
    Biography of the composer. According to Wikipedia: "George Frederic Handel (23 February 1685 14 April 1759) was an English Baroque composer of German birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerti grossi. Born as Georg Friedrich Händel in Halle, the native German spent most of his adult life in England, becoming a naturalized subject of the British crown on 22 January 1727.[3] Perhaps ... Leer más

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  • The Pathetick Musician

    Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence

    de Bruce Haynes, Geoffrey Burgess ...
    What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion of historical authenticity in music, proposing adventurous new directions to reinvigorate the ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Richard Wagner

    A Life in Music

    de Martin Geck ...
    Traducido por Stewart Spencer ...
    "[An] intriguing exploration of the composer's life and thought as exemplified by his music. An excellent biography." — Library JournalBest known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the ... Leer más

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  • Mozart's Grace

    de Scott Burnham ...
    Aspects of beauty in the music of MozartIt is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands? At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than distant admiration, love rather than awe? And how does Mozart's music create and sustain its buoyant and ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Other Planets

    The Complete Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen 1950–2007

    de Robin Maconie ...
    German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation that includes Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Luciano Berio. His radically new electronic and instrumental music converted Igor Stravinsky to serialism in the 1950s and has continued to inspire young ... Leer más

    $64.79 USD

  • Liszt: His Life and Music

    de Malcolm Hayes ...
    Perhaps the greatest pianist who has ever lived, Liszt was one of the titanic musical figures of the Romantic age. Abandoning his spectacular career as a travelling virtuoso in his mid-thirties, this passionate lover and fond father dedicated himself instead to a life of composing, conducting, teaching and, increasingly, religious devotion, eventually taking minor orders in the Roman Catholic ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Symphony of Seduction

    The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers

    de Christopher Lawrence ...
    ‘Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.’ —Romantic composer Hector BerliozBerlioz should know. He didn’t just hear the symphony when he fell in love with an Irish actress back in 1827, he wrote it.What was love like for the people who could really feel that song coming on? Symphony of Seduction tells of the romantic misadventures, tragedies and occasional ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Discovering Classical Music

    de Ian Christians ...
    Series series Discovering Classical Music
    A newbie's comprehensive guide to the joys of classical music, including introductions to forty of its greatest composers.Musical tastes may change, but the great classical composers maintain a devoted fan base—for centuries. For anyone who's interested in classical music but finds it a bit intimidating or confusing, passionate fan and former music-industry executive Ian Christians has developed a ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Experiencing Leonard Bernstein

    A Listener's Companion

    de Kenneth LaFave ...
    Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as Broadway's West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, Dybbuk), operas (Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, A Quiet Place), musicals (On the Town, Wonderful Town), ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Delphi Masterworks of Johann Sebastian Bach (Illustrated)

    de Peter Russell ...
    Series Libro 3 - Delphi Great Composers
    A German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. Celebrated as the creator of the ‘Brandenburg Concertos’, ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’, the ‘Mass in B Minor’ and countless other masterpieces of church and instrumental music, Bach’s sublime skill was his ability to ... Leer más

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