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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,762 ratings — published 2007
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,862 ratings — published 2014
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,497 ratings — published 1971
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,723 ratings — published 2013
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,264 ratings — published 1939
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,881 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,604 ratings — published 1970
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 473 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 — 2,522 ratings — published 2009
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 65,412 ratings — published 2022
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,223 ratings — published 2020
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 619 ratings — published 2002
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,760 ratings — published 1977
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 874 ratings — published 1997
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 606 ratings — published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 774 ratings — published 2020
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 26,356 ratings — published 2016
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,140 ratings — published 2000
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,007 ratings — published 1999
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 637 ratings — published 1997
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,063 ratings — published 2006
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,349 ratings — published 2017
Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,233 ratings — published 1995
The Great Pianists (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.05 — 842 ratings — published 1963
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 438 ratings — published
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,146 ratings — published 2005
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.36 — 217 ratings — published 1994
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 659 ratings — published 1999
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,248 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 — 467 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 — 6,538 ratings — published 2000
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 558 ratings — published 2001
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 — 6,357 ratings — published 2015
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection: The 350 Essential Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.93 — 221 ratings — published 1991
Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.14 — 77 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 — 1,151 ratings — published 2008
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.38 — 39 ratings — published 2006
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 931 ratings — published 2012
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,613 ratings — published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 332 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 — 413 ratings — published 2012
Chopin: A New Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 — 500 ratings — published 1979
Chopin's Letters (Dover Books On Music: Composers)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 236 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
Evening in the Palace of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,223 ratings — published 2005
The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 212 ratings — published 1995
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.52 — 325 ratings — published 1983
“When natural music is heightened and polished by art, 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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“The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
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