Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
From Boulanger to Stockhausen
Interviews and a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Bálint András Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended interviews with some of the most notable figures in music from the past fifty years, as well as lively snippets from interviews Varga conducted with thirteen other equally renowned musicians. The interviewees...
Joseph Holbrooke
Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This is the first scholarly work to document the musical life of Joseph Holbrooke, one of Britain’s most prolific and controversial composers during the first half of the twentieth century. Holbrooke was outspoken on many issues, including the maligned fortunes of British composers, which he believed...
The Toscanini Mystique
The Genius Behind the Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Kenneth A. Christensens THE TOSCANINI MYSTIQUE, is the first full length biography about the legendary Italian conductors life and career in almost thirty-five years. Maestro Toscanini had a frigid and extremely unhappy childhood, along with a severe musical education at the Parma Conservatory. This...
by Brian Cherney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Harry Somers is one of Canada's leading composers, and one of the most original. In the 1950s he experimented with contrapuntal writing, serialism, and style juxtaposition; in more recent years he has been concerned with the development of new vocal resources and improvisation.
Harry Somers,...
An American Organist in Paris
The Letters of Lee Orville Erwin, 1930-1931
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, during the first quarter of the 20th century, Alabama-born organist and composer Lee Orville Erwin, like many of the 20th century’s great American composers, spent time studying in Paris. From 1930 until 1931 Erwin studied in France with organist André Marchal...
Composers in the Classroom
A Bio-Bibliography of Composers at Conservatories, Colleges, and Universities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Composers in the Classroom is a bio-bibliographical dictionary, chronicling the careers and work of over 120 composers associated with conservatories, colleges, and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Scholars and students of music seeking critical information about composers who have...
Latin American Classical Composers
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Now in its third edition, Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary provides a singular English-language resource for biographical information on hundreds of composers from Central and South America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Painstakingly gathered from a wide variety of sources,...
by Godwin Sadoh
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
Nigeria has been blessed with a few well-trained organist-composers since the arrival of Christianity in the most populous African country around the 1840s. The institutions established by European missionaries and the colonial administration had a great impact on the emergence of the 'Nigerian organ...
by Matthew Robert Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this biography, Robert Walker skilfully blends the fascinating story of Rachmaninoff's life with the historical background of his times. The author shows, too, how outside influences- the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the Great War, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression- very much affected...
by Paul Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Lavishly illustrated throughout, this fascinating biography sets Debussy's musical revolution in the context of his times. It will be invaluable to musicians and concert-goers alike.
Quincy Jones
His Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps most famous for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller. Clarence Bernard Henry...
Quincy Jones
His Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps most famous for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller. Clarence Bernard Henry...
Latin American Classical Composers
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary presents expanded and updated coverage of its topic with an aim to be comprehensive. The authors have conducted exhaustive research to fill in gaps and correct minor...
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances
Memoirs of a Life among Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances is the entertaining and insightful memoir by veteran music critic Bernard Jacobson. Its pages are populated by eminent composers ranging from Hans Werner Henze to Andrzej Panufnik and by renowned performers, including Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Sviatoslav Richter,...