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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 — 15,839 ratings — published 2007
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,502 ratings — published 1971
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,889 ratings — published 2014
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,738 ratings — published 2013
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,346 ratings — published 1939
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,983 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,610 ratings — published 1970
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.29 — 476 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 — 2,535 ratings — published 2009
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 66,618 ratings — published 2022
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,247 ratings — published 2020
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 631 ratings — published 2002
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 620 ratings — published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 802 ratings — published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,153 ratings — published 2000
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,764 ratings — published 1977
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 883 ratings — published 1997
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 26,576 ratings — published 2016
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,059 ratings — published 1999
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.96 — 646 ratings — published 1997
Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,240 ratings — published 1995
The Great Pianists (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.05 — 845 ratings — published 1963
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,502 ratings — published 2006
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,369 ratings — published 2017
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 443 ratings — published
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,160 ratings — published 2005
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.36 — 220 ratings — published 1994
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,831 ratings — published 2007
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 347 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 — 475 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 — 6,579 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 — 221 ratings — published 1991
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.38 — 40 ratings — published 2006
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 — 6,434 ratings — published 2015
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 661 ratings — published 1999
The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 215 ratings — published 1995
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.52 — 328 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 — 1,153 ratings — published 2008
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 566 ratings — published 2001
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.09 — 942 ratings — published 2012
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,628 ratings — published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.32 — 336 ratings — published 2009
Gustav Mahler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 181 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
Chopin: A New Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 — 508 ratings — published 1979
Chopin's Letters (Dover Books On Music: Composers)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 243 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
“Because of the continuity of its tone, which can be maintained as long as desired, the organ has in it an element of the eternal. Even in a secular room it cannot become a secular instrument.”
― Out of My Life and Thought
― Out of My Life and Thought
“Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books, not everybody has to do it. Music is not for everybody.”
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