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A revealing insight into Rachmaninoff's intense and often melodramatic life. The musical child of Russia's golden age, Sergei Rachmaninoff, was the last of ...
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist.
There'd be no Wagner, Verdi, Mahler, Nina Simone, Michael Jackson, down to cello-playing Ed ...
Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year
Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in ...
A beautifully illustrated guide to the lives and works of more than 90 of the world's greatest ever composers
"The only love affair I ...
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 ...
MEET THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMPOSERS - FACE TO FACE
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated composers tells the fascinating stories of ...
What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?
In the 1930s, composers and musicians began ...
The conversations the 63-year-old Rossini had with Ferdinand Hiller in Trouville in Normandy in September 1855, and the finely drafted impression of Rossini himself with ...
In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today ...
'Magnificent.' - Kate Mosse'Riveting.' - Antonia Fraser
'Wonderful.' - Claire Tomalin
'Splendid.' - Miranda Seymour
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Vic-torian composer ...
'Stephen Hough's memoir had me gripped from the beginning [ .] riveting andrevelatory. Most memoirs give me far more than I want to know - this is ...
Writing with refreshing passion, and with her own personal story at its heart,Alice Farnham sets out to explore what it means to be a ...
Did Margaret Sutherland achieve more for Australian music than any other composer?
Margaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers. In ...
Igor Levit ranks among the greatest pianists of his generation, described by The New York Times as 'one of the essential artists of our time ...
How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English first violinist of ...