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A comprehensive and accessible guide to classical music and music theory, including styles, form, instruments, and more than 280 composer profiles.
What makes Mozart's ...
A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music
"A lively, argumentative and thoughtful ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Strikingly original' The Times
'Absorbing' Wall Street Journal
'Just as a cello's voice is divided across four strings, each with its own colour and ...
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 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 ...
An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony
In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work ...
Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaim or longevity as Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957 aged 91. Always more than simply a Finnish national ...
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 ...
