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Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Think of a composer right now. Was it a white man? Perhaps in old-fashioned clothing and wild hair? The music history we're told is one dominated by men, and even then, only a select few enter the zeitgeist. This conventional history perpetuates the myth of "great works" created by "genius" artists. Men who enjoyed institutional privilege during their lifetimes and have since been enshrined by an industry of publishers and record labels. But just...
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The second in our series of musical biographies, written and presented by broadcaster Jeremy Siepmann, with Anton Lesser as Chopin. In this set the life and music of the revolutionary composer/pianist is unveiled in considerable detail with many musical examples.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A landmark biography of the Polish composer by one of the world's leading authorities on Chopin and his time. Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English. Walker sets out to dispel the many myths and legends that...
10) George Handel
Author
Language
English
Description
Clever illustrations and story lines give children a light yet realistic overview of George Handel's life, style, and music.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A rich and evocative account of the life and work of one of the world's favorite composers. In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II and the composer was George Friedrich Handel. Handel, then still only twenty-seven and largely self-taught, would be at the heart of musical activity in London for the next four decades, composing...
12) Frederic Chopin
Author
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and work of the nineteenth-century Polish composer who invented beautiful music for the piano and new ways of playing it.
14) Handel
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the childhood and early musical training of the eighteenth-century Baroque composer, George Frideric Handel.
17) Chopin
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Examines the childhood and early musical training of the nineteenth-century Polish composer.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With rhythmic swirls of words and pictures, Suzanne Slade and Stacy Innerst beautifully reveal just how brilliantly Gershwin reached inside his head to create his masterpiece, Rhapsody in Blue. It's a surprising and whirlwind composition of notes and sounds and one long wail of a clarinet-dazzling and daring, just like George Gershwin himself!"--[from book jacket]
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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A definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, "Hallelujah." Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen's notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely rare audio recordings and interviews.
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