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Chopinby James Huneker
Digireads.com 2004; US$ 6.99This classic in music biography and criticism reflects the intimate, thorough knowledge of Chopin's music Huneker acquired while studying to be a concert pianist and his unusually keen insight into the character of the composer. Part One deals with Chopin's life; the second offers brilliant piece-by-piece analysis of the entire body of his music. more...
Bachby Malcolm Boyd
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 29.00The year 2000 has been declared a "Bach Year," marking the 250th anniversary of the great composer's death. Around the world, there will be major celebrations in honour of his astonishing body of work. This major biography of Bach, now completely revised and boasting 25 per cent more material, is published to coincide with these events. more...
Mahler's Sixth Symphonyby Robert Samuels
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 35.00This study uses semiotic theory in order to investigate different kinds of musical communication. more...
A Schnittke Readerby Alfred Schnittke; Alexander Ivashkin
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 19.95This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with musical examples, many of them in Schnittke's own hand. In A Schnittke Reader, the composer speaks of his life, his works, other composers, performers, and a broad range of topics in 20th-century music. The volume is rounded out with reflections by some of Schnittke's contemporaries. more...
Chopin in Parisby Tad Szulc
Simon & Schuster 1999; US$ 19.99Chopin in Paris introduces the most important musical and literary figures of Fryderyk Chopin's day in a glittering story of the Romantic era. During Chopin's eighteen years in Paris, lasting nearly half his short life, he shone at the center of the immensely talented artists who were defining their time -- Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Delacroix, Liszt, Berlioz, and, of course, George Sand, a rebel feminist writer who became Chopin's lover and protector. Tad Szulc, the author of Fidel and Pope John Paul II, approaches his subject with imagination and insight, drawing extensively on diaries, memoirs, correspondence, and the composer's own journal, portions of which appear here for the first time in English. He uses contemporary sources to... more...
Ernst von Dohnányiby Ilona Von Dohnanyi; James A. Grymes
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 27.95"... a rare kind of biography and autobiography: a clear and elegant exposition of fact, as well as a humane portrait of a great piano virtuoso, composer, teacher, and democratic soul, as told to and seen through the eyes of one close to him." -- Mark Mitchell Ernst von Dohnányi (1877--1960) was one of the most highly respected musicians of his time. The young Dohnányi enjoyed an international prestige that brought him into contact with such 19th-century masters as Johannes Brahms and Eugène d'Albert. He is remembered for his technique and interpretive skills as a pianist and conductor, as well as for the masterpieces... more...
19th-Century Chamber Musicby Stephen Hefling
Routledge 2003; US$ 49.95Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer beginning with Beethovena nd continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, to the end-of-the-century pre-modernists more...
20th Century Chamber Musicby James McDalla
Routledge 2003; US$ 49.95Twentieth Century Chamber Music combines a chronological overview of 20th-century chamber music and the major composers in the style, with information on a wide selection of chamber works. more...
On Conductingby Richard Wagner
Digireads.com 2004; US$ 5.99Famous composer Richard Wagner writes about the role of the conductor, musical interpretation, and other items related to music. more...
Beethoven: The Moonlight and other Sonatas, Op. 27 and Op. 31by Timothy Jones; Julian Rushton
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 24.00This is a comprehensive introduction to Beethoven's most popular piano sonata, together with the four other sonatas in Opp. 27 and 31. Aimed at pianists, students and music-lovers, it gives an account of the sonatas' historical background, their changing performance styles, and offers an accessible critical introduction to the music. more...