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Duran Duran (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as composer)
avg rating 3.24 — 67 ratings — published 1984
Orientations Collected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as composer)
avg rating 4.21 — 62 ratings — published 1990
Briefly, A Delicious Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as composer)
avg rating 3.74 — 9,964 ratings — published 2022
Speechless (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as composer)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,004 ratings — published 2023
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as composer)
avg rating 3.57 — 56 ratings — published 2004
The Story Orchestra: Four Seasons in One Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as composer)
avg rating 4.56 — 469 ratings — published
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as composer)
avg rating 4.01 — 68 ratings — published 1999
Bohemian fifths: an autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as composer)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 1999
The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as composer)
avg rating 4.73 — 11 ratings — published 1997
I Want To Take You Higher: The Life And Times Of Sly & The Family Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as composer)
avg rating 3.30 — 91 ratings — published 2008
Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as composer)
avg rating 3.83 — 205 ratings — published 2010
Writings on Music, 1965-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.24 — 184 ratings — published 2002
Stockhausen on Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.27 — 116 ratings — published 2000
Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.27 — 598 ratings — published 2000
Musik als existentielle Erfahrung (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Jazz Trek of Guy Mintus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Piece by Piece: How Stephen Sondheim Made Musical Puzzles Come Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.84 — 70 ratings — published
On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.88 — 637 ratings — published 2008
Score (Hollywood Renaissance, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.51 — 13,546 ratings — published 2026
Mozart: Portrait of a Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.86 — 378 ratings — published 1991
Mozart and Salieri (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.03 — 895 ratings — published 1832
Le goût de Mozart (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Composed (The Art of Love #7)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.36 — 108 ratings — published
Born to Run (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.19 — 57,170 ratings — published 2016
John Williams: A Composer's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.38 — 253 ratings — published 2025
Amadeus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,270 ratings — published 1979
Sadi's Bustan And Gulistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.25 — 492 ratings — published
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.45 — 684 ratings — published 2018
Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by his Pupils (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.47 — 175 ratings — published 1986
Decoded (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,732 ratings — published 2009
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.33 — 910 ratings — published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,217 ratings — published 2000
Frank Martin: A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1990
Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.30 — 20 ratings — published 1997
Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.50 — 14 ratings — published 1976
Domenico Scarlatti (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.06 — 32 ratings — published 1953
Clara Schumann: A Dedicated Spirit: A Study of Her Life and Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 1983
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.83 — 597,317 ratings — published 2023
Open Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.09 — 116,831 ratings — published 2020
King Crimson. Gli anni Prog (Italian Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published
The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,983 ratings — published 1951
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.13 — 253 ratings — published 2016
The Nibelung's Ring: A Guide to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2004
Conversing With Cage (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.20 — 82 ratings — published 1988
Lei sogna a colori? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.33 — 356 ratings — published 2009
Maestro (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,088 ratings — published
Prokofiev by Prokofiev: A composer's memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as composer)
avg rating 3.84 — 38 ratings — published 1979
“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have been a little depressed at first, but he didn't let misfortune get him down. It was like, Problem? What problem? He composed more than ever and came up with better music than anything he'd ever written. I really admire the guy. Like this Archduke Trio--he was nearly deaf when he wrote it, can you believe it? What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on--your strengths. Like being able to talk with the stone.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Arnold Schönberg, the inventor of atonal music, gave concerts which might not be comprehensible but were obviously important.”
― The Morning Gift
― The Morning Gift
