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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 — 15,848 ratings — published 2007
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,502 ratings — published 1971
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,889 ratings — published 2014
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,739 ratings — published 2013
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,359 ratings — published 1939
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,998 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,610 ratings — published 1970
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.29 — 477 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 — 2,538 ratings — published 2009
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 66,761 ratings — published 2022
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,249 ratings — published 2020
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 631 ratings — published 2002
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 623 ratings — published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 807 ratings — published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,154 ratings — published 2000
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,764 ratings — published 1977
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 883 ratings — published 1997
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 26,606 ratings — published 2016
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,068 ratings — published 1999
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 647 ratings — published 1997
Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,240 ratings — published 1995
The Great Pianists (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.05 — 846 ratings — published 1963
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,567 ratings — published 2006
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,373 ratings — published 2017
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 445 ratings — published
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,162 ratings — published 2005
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.36 — 220 ratings — published 1994
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,934 ratings — published 2007
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 347 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 — 474 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 — 6,586 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 — 40 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 — 6,442 ratings — published 2015
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 661 ratings — published 1999
The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 215 ratings — published 1995
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.52 — 329 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 — 1,153 ratings — published 2008
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 566 ratings — published 2001
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.09 — 943 ratings — published 2012
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,630 ratings — published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.32 — 336 ratings — published 2009
Gustav Mahler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 181 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 — 508 ratings — published 1979
Chopin's Letters (Dover Books On Music: Composers)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 244 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
“She didn’t really like classical music and there was no Vince to whisper in her ear and tell her what was beautiful about it. His descriptions were so clear. Handel was all scarlet ostrich feathers and silk ribbons fluttering in the wind, great silver trays blazing with candlelight. Wagner was trees creaking and silk ribbons fluttering in the wind, great silver trays blazing with candlelight. Wagner was trees creaking and snapping in the storm, foam running up the foot of a cliff, waves sweeping round rocks, black peaks reaching to the sky. Vince was no longer there, it was only music with no introduction and no commentary.”
― Iza's Ballad
― Iza's Ballad
“The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
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