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Classical Music Books
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,933 ratings — published 2007
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,510 ratings — published 1971
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,919 ratings — published 2014
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,760 ratings — published 2013
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,460 ratings — published 1939
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,169 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,615 ratings — published 1970
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 484 ratings — published 1992
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 68,180 ratings — published 2022
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,563 ratings — published 2009
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,270 ratings — published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,164 ratings — published 2000
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 641 ratings — published 2002
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 646 ratings — published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 845 ratings — published 2020
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,781 ratings — published 1977
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 894 ratings — published 1997
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,172 ratings — published 2006
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 26,916 ratings — published 2016
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,146 ratings — published 1999
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 650 ratings — published 1997
Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,247 ratings — published 1995
The Great Pianists (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 850 ratings — published 1963
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,451 ratings — published 2017
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.37 — 223 ratings — published 1994
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 349 ratings — published 2002
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,560 ratings — published 2015
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 457 ratings — published
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,174 ratings — published 2005
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 665 ratings — published 1999
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,959 ratings — published 2007
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.76 — 477 ratings — published 2010
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,637 ratings — published 2000
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection: The 350 Essential Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.92 — 223 ratings — published 1991
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.36 — 39 ratings — published 2006
The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 216 ratings — published 1995
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.53 — 333 ratings — published 1983
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 67 ratings — published 1999
Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.16 — 79 ratings — published 1997
Classical Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 47 ratings — published 2001
A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,157 ratings — published 2008
Testimony: The Memoirs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 932 ratings — published 1979
Shostakovich: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.16 — 178 ratings — published 1995
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.09 — 956 ratings — published 2012
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,639 ratings — published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 341 ratings — published 2009
Gustav Mahler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 186 ratings — published 2003
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.35 — 414 ratings — published 2012
Beethoven's Symphonies: An Artistic Vision (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 89 ratings — published 2015
Chopin: A New Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 — 516 ratings — published 1979
“When natural music is
heightened and polished by art”, he said once, “there man first beholds and can with great wonder examine to a certain extent, (for it cannot be wholly seized or understood) the great and perfect wisdom of God in His marvellous work of music, in which this is most singular and indeed astonishing, that one man sings a simple tune or tenor (as musicians call it), together with which three, four or five voices also sing, which as it were
play and skip delightedly round this simple tune or tenor, and wonderfully
grace and adorn the said tune with manifold devices and sounds, performing as it were a heavenly dance, so that those who at all understand it and are moved by it must be greatly amazed, and believe that there is
nothing more extraordinary in the world than such a song adorned with many voices.”
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heightened and polished by art”, he said once, “there man first beholds and can with great wonder examine to a certain extent, (for it cannot be wholly seized or understood) the great and perfect wisdom of God in His marvellous work of music, in which this is most singular and indeed astonishing, that one man sings a simple tune or tenor (as musicians call it), together with which three, four or five voices also sing, which as it were
play and skip delightedly round this simple tune or tenor, and wonderfully
grace and adorn the said tune with manifold devices and sounds, performing as it were a heavenly dance, so that those who at all understand it and are moved by it must be greatly amazed, and believe that there is
nothing more extraordinary in the world than such a song adorned with many voices.”
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“Haydn was quite simply the greatest variation writer who ever lived.”
― Exploring Haydn: A Listener's Guide to Music's Boldest Innovator
― Exploring Haydn: A Listener's Guide to Music's Boldest Innovator
