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What makes Mozart's music so great? Why does a minor chord sound sad and a major chord sound happy? What's the difference between ...
Chopin's Piano begins in November 1838, when George Sand, her children and Frederick Chopin took a boat to Majorca for the winter. It describes ...
From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a child, the neglect, the ...
Think you know Mozart? Think again.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, child genius, revered composer, bringer of joy and comfort to countless generations of music lovers? Well ...
"The only love affair I have ever had was with music." Maurice RavelA compelling celebration of more than 90 of the world's most influential ...
From the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told that it is an Italian instrument ...
Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists ...
Richard Wagner's final creation is also his most mysterious. The story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to ...
In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize-finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff contextualizes his famous subject by ...
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The music of ...
You know the music... but do you know the man? Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the world's best loved and most influential composers ...
When he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece ...
Who wrote the first true "opera"? Where did the system of musical notation come from? How do composers construct symphonies?
The Classical Music Book answers ...
This internationally bestselling biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, now translated into English for the first time, offers an unparalleled story of the composer's life ...