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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An esteemed music historian provides a rich, detailed overview of the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, traveling from Enlightenment-era Bonn to the musical capital of Europe, Vienna, to vividly describe the composer's career, ill health and romantic rejections.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Suchet illuminates the composer's difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew's life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing. This absorbing narrative provides a comprehensive account of a momentous life, as it takes the reader on a journey from the composer's birth in Bonn to his death in Vienna.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlas Books/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston.
Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of Beethoven, brings the great composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence....
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Well over a century after Wagner's death, the man and his music are as controversial as ever. Praised for his profound insights into the workings of the human heart, he has also been condemned as a dangerous libertine, a proto-fascist and an arrogant bore. His vast four-part operatic Ring cycle has been elevated as one of the greatest achievements of western culture and dismissed as an unparalleled example of creative megalomania. No attempt is made...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
This landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era....
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Robert Schumann (1810—56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury to his hand prevented him from pursuing a career as a touring concert pianist, he turned his energies and talents to composing, writing hundreds of works for piano and voice, as well as four symphonies...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Best known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813—83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the development of European music is indisputable, Wagner was also quite outspoken on the politics and culture of his time. His ideas traveled beyond musical circles into philosophy, literature,...
13) Bach
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the childhood and early musical training of the prolific eighteenth-century German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach.
14) Brahms
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.
15) Johannes Brahms
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of the nineteenth-century German composer who combined both classical and romantic musical styles to compose his lively songs and powerful symphonies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Nineteenth century German composer Richard Wagner s Ring of the Nibelung consists of four separate operas. Also known as the Ring Cycle, it was the crowning point of Wagner s career. Wagner was somewhat of a late bloomer in music. His first major composition was performed when he was nearly 30, and the Ring Cycle premiered when he was 53. While Wagner was among the world's greatest composers, he was not a particularly good person. He didn't repay...
20) Schumann
Author
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.
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