Amadeus imprint: 22 books

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Today Mozart's exquisite Le Nozze di Figaro delights and moves audiences everywhere, long after its 1786 birth into tumultuous times. The original Beaumarchais play raised a firestorm in France, then on the brink of revolution, with its dangerous commentary on class relations. However, Lorenzo Da...

Mozart

An Introduction to the Music, the Man and the Myths

by Roye E. Wates
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths explores in detail 20 of the composer's major works in the context of his tragically brief life and the turbulent times in which he lived. Addressed to non-musicians seeking to deepen their technical appreciation for his music while learning...
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000

For a long time, Così fan tutte was considered scandalous – which is not entirely surprising, if you look at its story. After seeing their fiancés, Guglielmo and Ferrando, go off to war, two sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, all too rapidly overcome their grief and agree to marry two attractive...
by Andrea Dr Bocelli
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

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Gustav Mahler

The Symphonies

by Constantin Floros
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003

Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler's musical techniques.
by Leonard Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music, illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an “imaginary conversation” with George Washington entitled...

Teaching Genius

Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician

by Barbara Lourie Sand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005

Itzhak Perlman, Kennedy, Midori, and Sarah Chang were among Dorothy Delay's students during her five decades as a violin teacher at Juilliard. For more than ten years, the author was granted access to DeLay's classes and lessons at Juilliard and the Aspen Music Festival and School, and this book reveals...

Afternoon of a Faun

How Debussy Created a New Music for the Modern World

by Harvey Lee Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Claude Debussy was the father of the modern era in classical music. His innovations liberated Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Bartók to write their iconoclastic works, and his harmonic inventions are still heard in American jazz. Though he was among the most compelling figures of the Belle Époque, his...

Beethoven's Piano Music

A Listener's Guide

by Victor Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Beethoven's works for solo piano – the sonatas, variations, and bagatelles – and the five concertos for piano and orchestra stand at the heart of the repertory. Beethoven's Piano Music: A Listener's Guide, by Victor Lederer, will help the motivated reader understand this popular but often knotty...
by Nick Strimple
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005

Nick Strimple's all-encompassing survey ranges from 19th-century masters, such as Elgar, to contemporary composers, such as Tan Dun and Paul McCartney. Repertory of every style and level of complexity is critically surveyed and described. This book is an essential resource for choral conductors and a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers.

The Composer's Landscape

The Pianist as Explorer: Interpreting the Scores of Eight Masters

by Carol Montparker
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000

Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire. Each chapter focuses on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and...

Richard Strauss

An Owner's Manual

by Richard Strauss, David Hurwitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000

The life and music of Richard Strauss (1864-1949) span what was arguably the most turbulent period in human history, encompassing the Franco-Prussian War, the unification of Germany, and two world wars. He was one of the very last composers to have started his career in service to the old European...
by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003

There's a reason La Bohème has been staged at the Met more often than any other opera: Puccini's enticing music perfectly conveys the enchantment of new young love and the anguish that comes with loss and death. La Bohème, the passionate and timeless story of love among impoverished young artists...
by Georges Bizet, Henri Meilhac
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003

A riveting story of fatal attraction between a beguiling, strong-willed gypsy and a naïve but passionate soldier who falls under her spell, Georges Bizet's Carmen pulses with seduction, obsession, and deadly betrayal. It was reviled at its Paris premiere, where its realism and perceived amorality...
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