The Lives Of The Great Composers

Author : Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393013023
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Great Composers written by Harold C. Schonberg and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.

Author : Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310208068
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers written by Patrick Kavanaugh and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.

Author : Harold C Schonberg
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393038576
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Great Composers 3e written by Harold C Schonberg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schonberg brings the reader closer to an identification with the composers he discusses and thus closer to an understanding of their music. The book consequently places more emphasis on biographical details and less upon technical analysis of the music.

Author : Elizabeth Lunday
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594747466
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Lives of Great Composers written by Elizabeth Lunday and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True tales of murder, riots, heartbreak, and great music. With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Gioachino Rossini (draft-dodging womanizer) to Johann Sebastian Bach (jailbird) to Richard Wagner (alleged cross-dresser), Secret Lives of Great Composers recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international music. You’ll learn that Edward Elgar dabbled with explosives; that John Cage was obsessed with fungus; that Berlioz plotted murder; and that Giacomo Puccini stole his church’s organ pipes and sold them as scrap metal so he could buy cigarettes. This is one music history lesson you’ll never forget!

Author : Michael Steen
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848312679
Total Pages : 1129 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives and Times of the Great Composers written by Michael Steen and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 1129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' Sir Jeremy Isaacs Michael Steen's 'Great Composers' was originally published in 2003. A lifetime's work and almost 1000 pages long, it has since become 'the' reference point and key read on the biographical backgrounds to classical music's biggest names. Authoritative and hugely detailed - but nonetheless a joy to read - this new edition will expand its readership further and capitalise on a newfound popular interest in classical music. Steen's book helps you explore the story of Bach, the respectable burgher much of whose vast output was composed amidst petty turf disputes in Lutheran Leipzig; or the ugly, argumentative Beethoven in French-occupied Vienna, obsessed by his laundry; or Mozart, the over-exploited infant prodigy whose untimely death was shrouded in rumour. Read about Verdi, who composed against the background of the Italian Risorgimento; or about the family life of the Wagners; and, Brahms, who rose from the slums of Hamburg to become a devotee of beer and coffee in fin-de-siecle Vienna, a cultural capital bent on destroying Mahler ... and much, much more.

Author : Maurice Hinson
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457407529
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meet the Great Composers, Book 1 written by Maurice Hinson and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each unit on a famous composer takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and can be used in group teaching, home school or as an assignment for individual upper elementary or middle school students.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744036852
Total Pages : 1059 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Composers written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 1059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” Maurice Ravel A compelling celebration of more than 90 of the world’s most influential composers from the medieval period to the present day, Composers reveals the fascinating stories of their lives, loves, and works. Biographical entries – introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured composer – trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each musical genius. Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces – symphonies, concertos, and operatic scores – that changed the direction of classical music and are still celebrated and treasured today. Lavishly illustrated with paintings or photographs of each composer, alongside original musical scores and personal correspondence, images of their homes and where they worked, and personal effects and other important artifacts, the book introduces the key influences, themes, and working methods of each individual, setting their works within a wider historical and cultural context. Charting the development of classical music and music movements across the centuries, Composers provides a compelling glimpse into the personal lives, loves, and influences of the giants of the classical music canon.

Author : Maurice Hinson
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780739012796
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of the Great Composers: Book & CD written by Maurice Hinson and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is important that young students learn about the lives of the great composers who have enriched our lives with beautiful music. The 12 units in Stories of the Great Composers give elementary students a glimpse into each composer's life, character and music. Includes a CD recording of the suggested listening, featuring one composition by each composer.

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Sex Lives of The.
ISBN 13 : 9781853755422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Lives of the Great Composers written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Sex Lives of The.. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rock stars of their day-Liszt and Chopin-to the tortured double life of Tchaikovsky, here are the most intimate details of the musical world.

Author : Peter Gammond
Publisher : Quadrillion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781858334141
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A-Z of Classical Composers written by Peter Gammond and published by Quadrillion Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 170 biographies which profile the lives and music of some of history's finest classical composers.