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Why Beethoven
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn’t exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... …
Genius and Anxiety
A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world – and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle …
Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
This lively chronicle of the years 1847--1947--the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world--is " a] thrilling and tragic history...especially good on the …
Why Mahler?
A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, his music offers more than the usual listening …
Why Mahler?
A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollywood films and on state occasions, …
MAESTROS, MASTERPIECES AND MADNESS
Inflated egos. Corporate insanity. Slave labour. Sexual excess. Dazzling genius. Welcome to the world of classical recording. Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness is a sparkling …
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in One Hundred Pieces
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. By examining one hundred of his compositions, a portrait emerges of the man behind the music. Lebrecht has immersed himself …
Mahler Remembered
Gustav Mahler is the most influential symphonist of the twentieth century. In this pioneering study, Norman Lebrecht reveals the man and musician through the words of his …
Life and Death of Classical Music
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of …
Book of Musical Anecdotes
Here is one of the most enjoyable and illuminating books ever published for the music lover, a feast of delightful anecdotes that reveal the all-too-human side of the great …
The Companion To 20th-century Music
Twentieth century music has been remarkable for its pluralism. The various styles,atonality, neo-classicism, nationalism, serialism, jazz, computer music, minimalism, electronics, …
Why Beethoven
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... …