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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,783 ratings — published 2007
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,870 ratings — published 2014
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,498 ratings — published 1971
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,725 ratings — published 2013
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,904 ratings — published 2011
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,297 ratings — published 1939
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,606 ratings — published 1970
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 473 ratings — published 1992
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 — 2,524 ratings — published 2009
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 65,728 ratings — published 2022
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 608 ratings — published 2018
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,228 ratings — published 2020
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 623 ratings — published 2002
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,761 ratings — published 1977
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 876 ratings — published 1997
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 782 ratings — published 2020
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 26,408 ratings — published 2016
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,146 ratings — published 2000
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,018 ratings — published 1999
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 640 ratings — published 1997
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,165 ratings — published 2006
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,349 ratings — published 2017
Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,234 ratings — published 1995
The Great Pianists (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.05 — 843 ratings — published 1963
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 440 ratings — published
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,153 ratings — published 2005
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.36 — 217 ratings — published 1994
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 659 ratings — published 1999
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,399 ratings — published 2007
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 346 ratings — published 2002
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 469 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 — 6,551 ratings — published 2000
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 559 ratings — published 2001
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,377 ratings — published 2015
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection: The 350 Essential Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.93 — 221 ratings — published 1991
Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.14 — 77 ratings — published 1997
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 — 1,151 ratings — published 2008
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.38 — 39 ratings — published 2006
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 932 ratings — published 2012
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,618 ratings — published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 332 ratings — published 2009
Gustav Mahler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.32 — 176 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 — 413 ratings — published 2012
Chopin: A New Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 — 503 ratings — published 1979
Chopin's Letters (Dover Books On Music: Composers)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 237 ratings — published 1931
Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.92 — 192 ratings — published 1998
Evening in the Palace of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,225 ratings — published 2005
The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 213 ratings — published 1995
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.52 — 325 ratings — published 1983
“Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.”
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“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
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