In this comprehensive life-and-works study, Hugh Macdonald draws on Berlioz's numerous writings - his Memoires, his critical articles, and his extensive correspondence, including …
Musorgsky created stunning masterpieces in such creations as his opera "Boris Godunov" and piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition" - yet his life was tragic. It is this pathetic …
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy—he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional …
Originally published as the centenary celebration volume in the Master Musicians series, Barry Cooper's Beethoven incorporates international research on many aspects of the …
The only single-volume biography of Béla Bartók available in English, this fascinating book offers a fresh perspective on one of the most loved and frequently performed composers …
The foremost composer under the reign of Elizabeth I and James I, William Byrd (c. 1540 - 1623) produced countless masses, motets, polyphonic songs, and works for keyboard and …
Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, …
Bridging the nineteenth- and the twentieth-centuries, the late-Romantic tradition and the beginnings of modernism, Mahler's music is an intimate reflection of his life and thought …
Published in its first edition in 1983, Boyd's treatment of this canonical composer is essential reading for students, scholars, and everyone interested in Baroque music. In this …
Brahms has long been considered an arch-conservative, the last Classical master, but modern research reveals a troubled and self-critical Romantic whose genius united the …
