Composers category: 3267 books
Choral Masterworks
A Listener's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2005
Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks, the...
Chopin in Paris
The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 1999
Chopin in Paris introduces the most important musical and literary figures of Fryderyk Chopin's day in a glittering story of the Romantic era. During Chopin's eighteen years in Paris, lasting nearly half his short life, he shone at the center of the immensely talented artists who were defining their...
Nikolay Myaskovsky
The Conscience of Russian Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Gregor Tassie describes Nikolay Myaskovsky as “one of the great enigmas of 20th-century Russian music.” Between the two world wars, the symphonies of Myaskovsky enjoyed great popularity and were performed by all major American and European orchestras; they were some of the most inspiring symphonic...
by S. Andrew Granade
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Harry Partch (1901-74) was one of the most distinctive and influential American composers of the mid-twentieth century. During the Great Depression, Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. Although he is renowned for his immense stage works, such as Delusion of the...
Claude Vivier
A Composer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Claude Vivier's haunting and expressive music has captivated audiences around the world. But the French-Canadian composer is remembered also because of the dramatic circumstances of his death: he was found murdered in his Paris apartment at the age of thirty-four. Given unrestricted access to Vivier's...
Samuel Barber
The Composer and His Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1994
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) was one of the most important and honored American composers of the twentieth century. Writing in a great variety of musical forms--symphonies, concertos, operas, vocal music, and chamber music--he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new...
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...
Louis Applebaum
A Passion for Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Canadian composer Louis Applebaum devoted his life to the cultural awakening of his native land, and this "magnificent obsession" drove him to become a founder of the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre. He was an instrumental figure in the early development of the...
Leo Ornstein
Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and...
Music Makers
The Lives of Harry Freedman and Mary Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2006
Music Makers examines and celebrates the extraordinary lives of composer Harry Freedman and his partner, soloist Mary Morrison.
Harry, with roots in jazz and popular music, was a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for 25 years. Canada’s Composer of the Year in 1979, he has written an...
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,...
Eagle Minds
Selected Correspondence of Istvan Anhalt and George Rochberg (1961-2005)
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Eagle Minds—a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg—is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century as observed by two highly...
by Arthur Rubinstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1973
“Arthur Rubinstein was a seventh child—gifted not only with the extraordinary talent we all listened to but also with one of the totaller recalls which makes possible this easy, expansive memoir of his years into World War I but also and especially a very happy nature which makes itself manifest...
by Mauricio Dupuis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This essay represents the first organic study about Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), emblematic American film composer in the second half of the 20th century. Goldsmith was also a brilliant conductor. He conducted his music, but also of other composers, such as those of his mentor Alex North. He has worked...