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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 — 15,798 ratings — published 2007
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,499 ratings — published 1971
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,879 ratings — published 2014
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,730 ratings — published 2013
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,302 ratings — published 1939
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,929 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,607 ratings — published 1970
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 474 ratings — published 1992
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 — 2,529 ratings — published 2009
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 66,124 ratings — published 2022
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 626 ratings — published 2002
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 614 ratings — published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 791 ratings — published 2020
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,239 ratings — published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,151 ratings — published 2000
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,761 ratings — published 1977
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 880 ratings — published 1997
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 26,483 ratings — published 2016
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,032 ratings — published 1999
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 642 ratings — published 1997
Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,236 ratings — published 1995
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,307 ratings — published 2006
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,359 ratings — published 2017
The Great Pianists (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.05 — 843 ratings — published 1963
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 440 ratings — published
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,156 ratings — published 2005
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.36 — 218 ratings — published 1994
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,559 ratings — published 2007
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 346 ratings — published 2002
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 473 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 — 6,568 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 3.93 — 221 ratings — published 1991
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.38 — 39 ratings — published 2006
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,397 ratings — published 2015
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 659 ratings — published 1999
The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 213 ratings — published 1995
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.52 — 325 ratings — published 1983
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 66 ratings — published 1999
Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 — 78 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 — 1,152 ratings — published 2008
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 560 ratings — published 2001
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 936 ratings — published 2012
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,622 ratings — published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 335 ratings — published 2009
Gustav Mahler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.32 — 176 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
Chopin: A New Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 — 506 ratings — published 1979
Chopin's Letters (Dover Books On Music: Composers)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 238 ratings — published 1931
Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.92 — 192 ratings — published 1998
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“If Wagner's yearning endlessly seeks resolution, Scriabin is on a search for the yearning itself: Who needs a resolution when the longing provides such ecstasy?”
― The Alexander Scriabin Companion: History, Performance, and Lore
― The Alexander Scriabin Companion: History, Performance, and Lore
