132 books
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Composers Books
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I Am Ozzy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as composers)
avg rating 4.16 — 35,638 ratings — published 2009
George Handel (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by (shelved 10 times as composers)
avg rating 4.20 — 96 ratings — published 1995
Ludwig Van Beethoven (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by (shelved 9 times as composers)
avg rating 4.17 — 196 ratings — published 1996
Peter Tchaikovsky (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
by (shelved 8 times as composers)
avg rating 4.20 — 119 ratings — published
Johann Sebastian Bach (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as composers)
avg rating 4.23 — 143 ratings — published 1998
Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as composers)
avg rating 3.90 — 98,858 ratings — published 2010
Frederic Chopin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by (shelved 7 times as composers)
avg rating 4.17 — 72 ratings — published 1999
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by (shelved 7 times as composers)
avg rating 4.12 — 146 ratings — published 1995
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as composers)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,170 ratings — published 2000
Aaron Copland (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by (shelved 6 times as composers)
avg rating 4.28 — 43 ratings — published 1995
George Gershwin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by (shelved 6 times as composers)
avg rating 4.17 — 46 ratings — published 1994
Duke Ellington (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by (shelved 6 times as composers)
avg rating 4.16 — 32 ratings — published
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as composers)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,578 ratings — published 2015
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as composers)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,921 ratings — published 2014
Johannes Brahms (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as composers)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published 1999
Leonard Bernstein (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by (shelved 5 times as composers)
avg rating 3.97 — 31 ratings — published 1997
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as composers)
avg rating 4.43 — 897 ratings — published 1997
Frank: The Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as composers)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,618 ratings — published 2010
Decoded (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as composers)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,699 ratings — published 2009
Marrying Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as composers)
avg rating 3.58 — 2,200 ratings — published 2004
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)
by (shelved 4 times as composers)
avg rating 4.01 — 498 ratings — published 1993
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as composers)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,761 ratings — published 2013
Igor Stravinsky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as composers)
avg rating 4.22 — 37 ratings — published 1996
Schumann (Famous Children)
by (shelved 4 times as composers)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1993
Vivaldi's Virgins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as composers)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,851 ratings — published 2007
Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as composers)
avg rating 3.52 — 81 ratings — published 1993
Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Orchard Paperbacks)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.07 — 303 ratings — published 1989
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.75 — 27,004 ratings — published 2016
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.44 — 647 ratings — published 2018
Becoming Bach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.89 — 361 ratings — published 2017
Chopin's Letters (Dover Books On Music: Composers)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.12 — 252 ratings — published 1931
Vivaldi and the Invisible Orchestra (Christy Ottaviano Books)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.79 — 141 ratings — published 2012
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,286 ratings — published 2013
The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.93 — 193 ratings — published 1980
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.09 — 956 ratings — published 2012
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,783 ratings — published 1977
Haydn (Famous Children Series)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.27 — 15 ratings — published 1992
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.81 — 21 ratings — published 1994
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.06 — 246 ratings — published 2001
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.13 — 122 ratings — published 2006
Pictures at an Exhibition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.85 — 53 ratings — published 2003
The Farewell Symphony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.00 — 82 ratings — published 2000
Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.01 — 107 ratings — published 2007
The Heroic Symphony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.03 — 69 ratings — published 2004
John Philip Sousa (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 4.39 — 36 ratings — published 1998
Handel (Famous Children Series)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 1992
Brahms (Famous Children)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published 1993
Schubert (Famous Children Series)
by (shelved 3 times as composers)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1994
“Of course, in a sense, all opera is absurd.”
― The Beloved Vision: A History of Nineteenth Century Music
― The Beloved Vision: A History of Nineteenth Century Music
“Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.”
― Advice To Young Musicians
― Advice To Young Musicians













