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Classical Music Books
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,028 ratings — published 2007
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,795 ratings — published 2013
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,515 ratings — published 1971
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,951 ratings — published 2014
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 490 ratings — published 1992
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,510 ratings — published 1939
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,621 ratings — published 1970
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,299 ratings — published 2011
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,770 ratings — published 2022
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,574 ratings — published 2009
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.45 — 665 ratings — published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 880 ratings — published 2020
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,304 ratings — published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,182 ratings — published 2000
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 641 ratings — published 2002
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 906 ratings — published 1997
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,739 ratings — published 2006
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,234 ratings — published 1999
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,783 ratings — published 1977
The Great Pianists (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 855 ratings — published 1963
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,479 ratings — published 2017
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 27,274 ratings — published 2016
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 656 ratings — published 1997
Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,254 ratings — published 1995
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 469 ratings — published
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.37 — 226 ratings — published 1994
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,731 ratings — published 2007
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 352 ratings — published 2002
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,655 ratings — published 2015
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,198 ratings — published 2005
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 673 ratings — published 1999
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.76 — 485 ratings — published 2010
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,682 ratings — published 2000
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection: The 350 Essential Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.93 — 224 ratings — published 1991
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.36 — 39 ratings — published 2006
The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 219 ratings — published 1995
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.53 — 338 ratings — published 1983
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 68 ratings — published 1999
Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.16 — 79 ratings — published 1997
The Essential Canon of Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.20 — 158 ratings — published 2001
Classical Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 47 ratings — published 2001
A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,169 ratings — published 2008
Testimony: The Memoirs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 940 ratings — published 1979
Shostakovich: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 — 181 ratings — published 1995
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.09 — 969 ratings — published 2012
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,653 ratings — published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.32 — 348 ratings — published 2009
Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.14 — 594 ratings — published 2016
Gustav Mahler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.30 — 188 ratings — published 2003
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.35 — 417 ratings — published 2012
“When natural music is
heightened and polished by art”, he said once, “there man first beholds and can with great wonder examine to a certain extent, (for it cannot be wholly seized or understood) the great and perfect wisdom of God in His marvellous work of music, in which this is most singular and indeed astonishing, that one man sings a simple tune or tenor (as musicians call it), together with which three, four or five voices also sing, which as it were
play and skip delightedly round this simple tune or tenor, and wonderfully
grace and adorn the said tune with manifold devices and sounds, performing as it were a heavenly dance, so that those who at all understand it and are moved by it must be greatly amazed, and believe that there is
nothing more extraordinary in the world than such a song adorned with many voices.”
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heightened and polished by art”, he said once, “there man first beholds and can with great wonder examine to a certain extent, (for it cannot be wholly seized or understood) the great and perfect wisdom of God in His marvellous work of music, in which this is most singular and indeed astonishing, that one man sings a simple tune or tenor (as musicians call it), together with which three, four or five voices also sing, which as it were
play and skip delightedly round this simple tune or tenor, and wonderfully
grace and adorn the said tune with manifold devices and sounds, performing as it were a heavenly dance, so that those who at all understand it and are moved by it must be greatly amazed, and believe that there is
nothing more extraordinary in the world than such a song adorned with many voices.”
―
“I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I loved to mix the two
together.”
― The Last Night of the Earth Poems
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I loved to mix the two
together.”
― The Last Night of the Earth Poems
