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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 — 15,986 ratings — published 2007
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,514 ratings — published 1971
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,779 ratings — published 2013
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,935 ratings — published 2014
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 487 ratings — published 1992
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,489 ratings — published 1939
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,619 ratings — published 1970
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,241 ratings — published 2011
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,086 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 — 2,571 ratings — published 2009
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.45 — 655 ratings — published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 868 ratings — published 2020
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,291 ratings — published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,174 ratings — published 2000
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 640 ratings — published 2002
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 903 ratings — published 1997
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,473 ratings — published 2006
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,206 ratings — published 1999
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,784 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 — 1,464 ratings — published 2017
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 27,128 ratings — published 2016
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 653 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 — 464 ratings — published
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.37 — 223 ratings — published 1994
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,354 ratings — published 2007
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 350 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 — 6,599 ratings — published 2015
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,187 ratings — published 2005
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 668 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 — 484 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 — 6,660 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 — 222 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 — 336 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
The Essential Canon of Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 157 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 — 1,167 ratings — published 2008
Testimony: The Memoirs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 934 ratings — published 1979
Shostakovich: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 — 180 ratings — published 1995
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.09 — 959 ratings — published 2012
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,644 ratings — published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 344 ratings — published 2009
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 — 416 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
“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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“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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