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A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music
Tchaikovsky is famous for all ...
Why do so many of us listen to classical music, and how can you get the most from listening to it? In this unpretentious and ...
A PRESTO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
'Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Breathtaking.' SIMON CALLOW
'Vivid.' BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
A colourful and concise telling of the fascinating ...
A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces.
'A brief yet elegant excursion into ...
The extraordinary true story of intertwined lives that lies behind Handel's Messiah, the most performed piece of classical music ever written
London - Dublin, 1741-42 ...
Drawing on a range of sources and fields, the rich life story of this polymathic composer.
This groundbreaking biography offers fresh perspectives on the life ...
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano-but how many women pianists can you name?
Throughout most of the piano's history ...
A rich and fascinating account of one of music history's most ancient, varied, and distinctive instruments
From its origins in animal horn instruments in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Born in Salzburg in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most prolific musicians that ever lived. Here, the author Judith Grohmann takes us ...
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Who wrote the first true "opera"? Where did the system of musical notation come from? How do composers construct symphonies?
The ...
Beyond Reason relates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the ...
From the bestselling author of Beethoven: The Man Revealed, In Search of Beethoven is John Suchet's latest and most personal book dedicated to the ...