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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 4.10 — 15,930 ratings — published 2007
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,510 ratings — published 1971
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,918 ratings — published 2014
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,759 ratings — published 2013
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,456 ratings — published 1939
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,164 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,615 ratings — published 1970
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 484 ratings — published 1992
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 68,118 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 — 2,559 ratings — published 2009
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,270 ratings — published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,164 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
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 646 ratings — published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 844 ratings — published 2020
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,781 ratings — published 1977
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 894 ratings — published 1997
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,150 ratings — published 2006
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 26,903 ratings — published 2016
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,141 ratings — published 1999
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 650 ratings — published 1997
Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,247 ratings — published 1995
The Great Pianists (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 850 ratings — published 1963
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,451 ratings — published 2017
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.37 — 223 ratings — published 1994
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 349 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 — 6,554 ratings — published 2015
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 457 ratings — published
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,174 ratings — published 2005
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 665 ratings — published 1999
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,930 ratings — published 2007
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.76 — 477 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 — 6,635 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 3.92 — 223 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 — 216 ratings — published 1995
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.53 — 333 ratings — published 1983
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 67 ratings — published 1999
Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.16 — 79 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 — 1,157 ratings — published 2008
Testimony: The Memoirs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 930 ratings — published 1979
Shostakovich: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.16 — 178 ratings — published 1995
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.09 — 955 ratings — published 2012
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,639 ratings — published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 341 ratings — published 2009
Gustav Mahler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 186 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 — 414 ratings — published 2012
Beethoven's Symphonies: An Artistic Vision (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 89 ratings — published 2015
Chopin: A New Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 — 516 ratings — published 1979
“谱曲者早已代代作古，一页页乐谱也不容辩驳——我所奏的不过是作为美的记忆，是美的消逝。在爵士乐中，乐手们总期待着下一个瞬间的奇迹。而在古典音乐的现场，视角颠倒了。正因它早已不是当下的事件，而是对某刻往昔的在线，使每个瞬间都变得珍贵、迫切起来。一个个音符在触及我们心灵的刹那，又一个接一个成为过去。过去接连着流向过去，直至聆听的尽头；我们就这样在时间的悬置中，完成了对回忆的致敬。所谓现场，不就是这样一种关乎“消逝”的艺术吗？”
― 演奏之外
― 演奏之外
“Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.”
― Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker
― Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker
