J. S. Bach, Volume One

Albert Schweitzer

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• Independent of his international renown as a humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer is well known as a great musicologist; a reputation that rests largely up... Lees meer

Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies

George Grove

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• This classic of music analysis by a noted musicologist offers revealing insights into Beethoven's personality and music. George Grove, the founding ed... Lees meer

Beethoven

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• The almost legendary disorder of Beethoven's house, his eating habits, his growing deafness and ill-health, his tendency to be suspicious of friends, ... Lees meer

Gustav Mahler

Bruno Walter, Ernst Krenek

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876-1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing reco... Lees meer

Life of Chopin

Franz Liszt

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• He lived in the shadow of death, painfully aware of the tuberculosis that would kill him prematurely. But Frédéric Chopin attained immortality with hi... Lees meer

Mozart & His Piano Concertos

Cuthbert Girdlestone

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• This classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of 23 of Mozart's piano concertos. In addition to establishing the lines along which the gen... Lees meer

Mozart

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• Mozart's adult life was an almost unbroken succession of artistic triumphs and personal disappointments. This collection of excerpts from his letters ... Lees meer

The Music of Liszt

Humphrey Searle

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• Virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt was a key figure in the evolution of modern music. Most of his 700 compositions, which range from romantic impressionism ... Lees meer

Schumann on Music

Robert Schumann

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• Schumann's genius as a composer is well known; perhaps less well known is the fact that he was also a gifted music critic who wrote hundreds of percep... Lees meer

Beethoven

Friedrich Kerst

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• This long-esteemed book offers the reader a highly interesting glimpse of Beethoven, the man. There are a number of biographical studies of Beethoven,... Lees meer

Beethoven's Letters

Ludwig Van Beethoven

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), the protagonist of freedom for music, disentangled music from the control of the ruling class. In publishing his mus... Lees meer

Chopin's Letters

Frederic Chopin

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• "Nothing could be more spontaneous and ebullient than Chopin's letters." -- Books "Perhaps no composer's letters are so kindred to his music, and remi... Lees meer

In Search of Chopin

Alfred Cortot

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• "Altogether, a sensitive and tasteful document." -- Library Journal A series of themed essays rather than a traditional biography, this profile of the... Lees meer

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Cuthbert Girdlestone

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• The definitive biography and critical study of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), this volume deals at length not only with the composer's musical achi... Lees meer

The Perfect Wagnerite

George Bernard Shaw

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Music: Composers
• As a commentator on music and music critics, Bernard Shaw was experienced and knowledgeable, strongly opinionated, and, as in all his writing, unsurpa... Lees meer