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  • 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…

    The First Four Notes - Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    By Matthew Guerrieri rating of short cover   ( 51 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, November 2012 ISBN: 9780307960924 History, Modern Language:  English
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  • The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listenerMusic, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are "gifted listeners." But…

    The Essential Canon of Classical Music

    By David Dubal rating of short cover   ( 41 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2003 ISBN: 9781466807266 Classical & Opera, Classical Language:  English
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  • Although Gustav Mahler was a famous conductor in Vienna and New York, the music that he wrote was condemned during his lifetime and for many years after his death in 1911. “Pages of dreary emptiness…

    Why Mahler? - How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

    By Norman Lebrecht rating of short cover   ( 68 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, October 2010 ISBN: 9780307379504 Classical & Opera, Classical Language:  English
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  • Beethoven bestrides the history of music like no other. Without him it would have been a very different story. This biographical portrait reveals a titanic personality, both vulnerable and…

    Beethoven: His Life and Music

    By Jeremy Siepmann Naxos Books, June 2012 ISBN: 9781843792543 Classical & Opera, Classical Language:  English
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  • MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSICWho are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each…

    Classical Music - The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works

    By Phil G. Goulding rating of short cover   ( 76 customer ratings) Random House Publishing Group, March 2011 ISBN: 9780307760463 Classical & Opera, Classical Language:  English
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  • It is late March 1868. In Munich, composer Richard Wagner is completing his new opera Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg. It has been a difficult few years for him, and much depends upon the success of…

    The Mastersinger from Minsk - An Inspector Hermann Preiss Mystery

    An Inspector Hermann Preiss Mystery - 2 By Morley Torgov rating of short cover   ( 3 customer ratings) Dundurn, June 2012 ISBN: 9781459702028 Classical & Opera, Classical Language:  English
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  • Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a…

    Classical Form:A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn…

    By William E. Caplin rating of short cover   ( 27 customer ratings) Oxford University Press, USA, May 1998 ISBN: 9780199881758 Classical & Opera, Classical Language:  English
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  • The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential…

    The Ninth - Beethoven and the World in 1824

    By Harvey Sachs rating of short cover   ( 178 customer ratings) Random House Publishing Group, June 2010 ISBN: 9781588369819 Classical & Opera, Classical Language:  English
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  • One of the most gifted, celebrated, scrutinized, and criticized musicians in the second half of the twentieth century, Leonard Bernstein made his legendary conducting debut at the New York…

    Leonard Bernstein

    By Barbara Haws, Burton Bernstein rating of short cover   ( 3 customer ratings) HarperCollins, November 2010 ISBN: 9780062043146 Classical & Opera, Classical Language:  English
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  • Clarity of outline, conciseness, and formal beauty are excellent things in musical works, but an exquisite fancy, a noble imagination, and a lofty poetic spirit are of infinitely greater account; and…

    Franz Schubert: A Biography

    By Henry Frost, William Hadow Philovox.com, February 2013 ISBN: 1230000105629 Classical & Opera, Classical Language:  English
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