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  • Rachmaninoff Masterpieces for Solo Piano: 17 Works by Rachmaninoff, Serge
    Serge Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff Masterpieces for Solo Piano: 17 Works

    This generous compilation of Rachmaninoff's piano music reflects the "best of the best" -- selected shorter works that have been most often performed and most frequently recorded by such great keyboard artists as Horowitz, Richter, Gilels, Cliburn, and Rachmaninoff himself. Offered here for the...
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  • Organ Music for Manuals Only: 33 Works by Berlioz, Bizet, Franck, Saint-Saens and Others by Smith, Rollin
    Rollin Smith

    Organ Music for Manuals Only: 33 Works by Berlioz, Bizet, Franck, Saint-Saens and Others

    Unlike the vast majority of classical music for organ -- which requires both manual and pedal dexterity -- this unique collection of 33 works is devoted solely to organ music originally written on two staves and intended for manuals alone. Some was conceived for...
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  • The Magic Flute Vocal Score by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute Vocal Score

    One of Mozart's greatest operas, this work achieved immediate success upon its first performance in 1791 and has continued to enchant listeners ever since. A complex allegory glorifying Freemasonry and its emphasis on brotherhood, charity, and benevolence, the opera was particularly admired by Beethoven,...
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  • A German Requiem, Op. 45, in Full Score by Brahms, Johannes
    Johannes Brahms

    A German Requiem, Op. 45, in Full Score

    This edition of Brahms's greatest, most ambitious vocal work is reprinted from the definitive edition of the composer's works prepared by Breitkopf & H rtel of Leipzig. Inexpensive, yet sturdily constructed to provide years of pleasurable use, this full score combines all the musical...
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  • Five Great Piano Sonatas by Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Five Great Piano Sonatas

    The most intimate form of chamber music in Beethoven's day, the piano sonata became the composer's vehicle for his boldest and most private thoughts. The five compositions in this collection, the most famous of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, are among the most frequently recorded...
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  • St. Matthew Passion, Bwv 244, in Full Score by Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. Matthew Passion, Bwv 244, in Full Score

    Long considered the noblest, most inspired musical treatment of the crucifixion of Christ, Bach's St. Matthew Passion remains an immensely popular, oft-recorded work. First performed in the late 1720s, the great choral masterpiece was scored for a vast ensemble of double chorus, soloists, double...
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  • The Carnival of the Animals in Full Score by Saint-Saëns, Camille
    Camille Saint-Sa?s

    The Carnival of the Animals in Full Score

    Written in 1886 for a Mardi Gras celebration, Saint-Sa ns' best-known work consists of 14 pieces scored for flute/piccolo, clarinet, glass harmonica (tuned glass bowls), xylophone, two pianos, and strings. Playfully borrowing themes from other works -- including his own -- the composer paints...
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  • Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55: Eroica by Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55: Eroica

    Completed in 1804, the "Eroica" Symphony marked a profound turning point in Beethoven's personal and professional life. Confronted by severe and progressive hearing loss, the composer drew upon immense inner reserves to create one of his most dynamic and expressive works.Original in structure and...
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  • Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 by Grieg, Edvard
    Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2

    In 1874 Henrik Ibsen invited Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for a staged version of his Norwegian verse drama Peer Gynt. The result of this collaboration between Norway's greatest dramatist and its greatest composer was a set of pieces that have become among...
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  • Works for Piano by Chabrier, Emmanuel
    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Works for Piano

    More than anyone else of his century, Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-94) restored to French music the essential French traits of clarity, emotional vitality, wit, and tenderness, at the time when the music of the 1900s was struggling under a Wagnerian hangover on the one hand...
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  • Symphony No. 3 by Saint-Saëns, Camille
    Camille Saint-Sa?s

    Symphony No. 3

    Considered throughout much of his career as the preeminent French composer, Camille Saint-Sa?s wrote music that embodies a characteristic French concern for clarity and order, together with his own assured mastery of the composer's craft. These qualities are evident in Saint-Sa?s' Symphony No. 3,...
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  • St. John Passion in Full Score by Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. John Passion in Full Score

    One of the most moving of all the musical settings of the Passion of Christ, and one of the most frequently performed of all religious choral works. In its solos and choruses, Bach's choral masterpiece follows the biblical text that relates the events leading...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume I: Volume 1 by Spitta, Philipp
    Philipp Spitta

    Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume I: Volume 1

    This monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach ranks among the great classics of musicology. Since its first publication in 1873-80, it has remained the basic work on Bach and the foundation of later research and study. The three-part treatment describes in chronological sequence practically...
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  • Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in Full Score by Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch
    Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

    Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in Full Score

    In the course of his musical career, Tchaikovsky attained a thorough mastery of orchestration as he strove to intensify the expressiveness of his musical language. This volume, combining authoritative full-score editions of his first three symphonies -- popularly known as "Winter Daydreams," the "Little...
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  • Complete Organ Symphonies, Series II by Widor, Charles-Marie
    Charles-Marie Widor

    Complete Organ Symphonies, Series II

    Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), the greatest French organist of his day, called the ten solo compositions in this two-volume edition organ symphonies to reflect both their secular spirit and the orchestral wealth of the timbres of the new French organs. Cast in the distinctive new...
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  • Complete Lyric Pieces for Piano by Grieg, Edvard
    Edvard Grieg

    Complete Lyric Pieces for Piano

    Between 1867 and 1901, Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) wrote ten sets of little mood pictures for piano that display his great musical gifts at their lyrical best. Charming works of elegant simplicity and warmth, they have become cornerstones of the piano repertoire, favorites of both...
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  • Complete Keyboard Works, Series Two: Ordres XIV-XXVII and Miscellaneous Pieces by Couperin, Francois
    Francois Couperin

    Complete Keyboard Works, Series Two: Ordres XIV-XXVII and Miscellaneous Pieces

    "His melodic imagination displays admirable freshness. He possesses a delicate harmonic sense. His themes show the inspirations of an impassioned musician: perfectly created, firm in line, vivid, and enduring in color. His art never wavers; it consistently exhibits a magnificent technique." -- John Gillespie,...
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  • Années de Pèlerinage, Complete by Liszt, Franz
    Franz Liszt

    Ann馥s de P鑞erinage, Complete

    The present volume reproduces -- directly from an authoritative Russian edition -- the famous cycle of solo piano works that comprises a summa of Liszt's pianistic achievement, representing the maturation of his style over a period of decades. The Ann馥s de P鑞erinage (Years of...
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  • Goyescas, Spanish Dances and Other Works for Solo Piano by Granados, Enrique
    Enrique Granados

    Goyescas, Spanish Dances and Other Works for Solo Piano

    This remarkable book brings together in one sturdy, yet inexpensive volume four of the most memorable and frequently played sets of works for the piano by Enrique Granados (1867-1916), one of Spain's greatest modern composers. They are reprinted here from early editions.The piano suite...
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  • Iberia and España: Two Complete Works for Solo Piano by Albéniz, Isaac
    Isaac Alb駭iz

    Iberia and Espa: Two Complete Works for Solo Piano

    Isaac Alb駭iz (1860-1909) began his musical life as a piano prodigy in Barcelona at the age of four, and it is as a prolific composer of solo works for the pianoforte that we celebrate him most. This inexpensive Dover edition, designed to give you...
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  • Fifty-Nine Favorite Songs by Schubert, Franz
    Franz Schubert

    Fifty-Nine Favorite Songs

    The last word has not been said about the Schubert song when its melody, accompaniment, atmosphere -- all the lovely externals of his music -- have been surveyed. There yet remains the ineffable quality of textual illumination to which all of these factors are...
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  • Six Great Overtures in Full Score by Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Six Great Overtures in Full Score

    The six overtures gathered together in this handy volume are among the most recorded, performed, and studied compositions in the orchestral repertoire. They offer musicians and music lovers the opportunity to study the genius of Beethoven in compositions written as preludes to other works,...
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  • The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) in Full Score by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) in Full Score

    "...it is the evident quiet approbation which best pleases me! It is apparent that this opera is rising rapidly and steadily in estimation." -- Mozart, letter to his wife, October 7-8, 1791.Unfortunately, his tragic death a scant two months later prevented Mozart from ever...
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  • Selected Songs for Solo Voice and Piano by Schumann, Robert
    Robert Schumann

    Selected Songs for Solo Voice and Piano

    The year 1840 proved a momentous one for Robert Schumann: after an interval of twelve years, he resumed writing songs, producing some 150 vocal compositions within the year; and in September, after a long and stormy courtship, he married his beloved Clara Wieck. During...
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  • Songs, 1880-1904 by Debussy, Claude
    Claude Debussy

    Songs, 1880-1904

    The essence of Debussy's musical personality is in the songs and they exhibit virtually every aspect of his art. -- Oscar Thompson, Debussy: Man and Artist.Had Claude Debussy (1862-1918) been exclusively a composer of songs, his musical reputation would have been assured. Although his...
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  • Die Walküre by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Die Walk?e

    A landmark in the history of opera, Die Walk re is the most popular and most frequently performed opera among those that make up the Ring Cycle. It contains some of Wagner's best-known and most memorable music and stands alone as a complete work.This...
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  • French Piano Music, an Anthology by Philipp, Isidor
    Isidor Philipp

    French Piano Music, an Anthology

    Piano music is as essential to France as the opera is to Italy or lieder to Germany. This anthology, a broad cross-section of French piano music, selects and presents 44 short piano works ranging from 1670 to 1906. Twenty-eight composers, all French or active...
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  • Complete Sonatas and Variations for Solo Piano by Brahms, Johannes
    Johannes Brahms

    Complete Sonatas and Variations for Solo Piano

    The most ambitious in scale of Brahms's pieces for piano solo, the sonatas and variations, are contained complete within this volume: the three beautifully lyrical Sonatas in C Major, F-sharp Minor and F Minor, and the five sets of Variations: on a theme by...
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  • Piano Music by Gottschalk, Louis M.
    Louis M. Gottschalk

    Piano Music

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) is still remembered as one of the most interesting early American composers, a composer whose work is still performed and enjoyed. This collection of Gottschalk's major piano music shows the wide range of his talent from the "wild, languishing" derivations...
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  • Variations on a Theme of Haydn: Norton Critical Score by Brahms, Johannes
    Johannes Brahms

    Variations on a Theme of Haydn: Norton Critical Score

    Author: Johannes BrahmsISBN-10: 0393933628ISBN-13: 9780393933628Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1975Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d
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  • Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music by Kildea, Paul
    Paul Kildea

    Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music

    In November 1838, Fr馘駻ic Chopin, George Sand, and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognized as one of the...
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  • Tchaikovsky: The Early Years 1840-1874 by Brown, David
    David Brown

    Tchaikovsky: The Early Years 1840-1874

    Author: David BrownISBN-10: 0393336050ISBN-13: 9780393336054Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1979Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
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  • Tchaikovsky: The Years of Wandering 1878-1885 by Brown, David
    David Brown

    Tchaikovsky: The Years of Wandering 1878-1885

    Yet Dr. Brown observes, it is during this period that Tchaikovsky is perhaps at his most exposed: in his responses to ordinary situations we can most clearly see his idiosyncrasies and rapidly changing moods, his likes and dislikes, his kindness and compassion, his openhanded...
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  • The Study of Fugue by Mann, Alfred
    Alfred Mann

    The Study of Fugue

    Author: Alfred MannISBN-10: 0393096750ISBN-13: 9780393096750Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1966Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.79d
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  • The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes Brahms by Botstein, Leon
    Leon Botstein

    The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes Brahms

    For all those eager to delve more deeply into Brahms's music, The Compleat Brahms is an indispensable companion. In a single volume that covers every work written by Brahms, leading scholars from across the country provide details of each work's composition and discuss its...
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  • Guide to Sonatas: Music for One or Two Instruments by Berger, Melvin
    Melvin Berger

    Guide to Sonatas: Music for One or Two Instruments

    With the same authority, insight, and unique ability to bring music to life on the printed page that he brought to his Guide to Chamber Music, Melvin Berger gives us an indispensable guide to the sonata form. Comprehensive, analytical, and historical, including descriptions in...
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  • Chopin's Funeral by Eisler, Benita
    Benita Eisler

    Chopin's Funeral

    Fr d ric Chopin's reputation as one of the Great Romantics endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac biography, the man was more complicated than his iconic image. A classicist, conservative, and dandy who relished his conquest of Parisian society,...
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  • The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz: Introduced by David Cairns by Berlioz, Hector
    Hector Berlioz

    The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz: Introduced by David Cairns

    Hector Berlioz' (1803-69) autobiography is both an account of his important place in the rise of the Romantic movement and a personal testament. He tells the story of his liaison with Harriet Smithson, and his even more passionate affairs of the mind with Shakespeare,...
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  • Howard Hanson: A Bio-Bibliography by Perone, James E.
    James E. Perone

    Howard Hanson: A Bio-Bibliography

    Howard Hanson details the career and works of a composer called by several critics the most important figure in American music in the second quarter of the 20th century. Hanson's compositions elicited the broadest possible range of critical reaction. While early works from the...
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  • Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music by Kavanaugh, Patrick
    Patrick Kavanaugh

    Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music

    Patrick Kavanaugh shows that great music was written to be enjoyed, not merely admired. In Music of the Great Composers, he displays his gift for making the classics easy to understand and a delight to listen to. This practical book lets you select a...
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  • Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin by Frolova-Walker, Marina
    Marina Frolova-Walker

    Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin

    Challenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature of Russian music - its ineffable 'Russianness' - Marina Frolova-Walker examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's opera 'A Life for the Tsar' in 1836 to the death of Stalin in...
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  • Bach: The Mass in B Minor: The Great Catholic Mass by Stauffer, George B.
    George B. Stauffer

    Bach: The Mass in B Minor: The Great Catholic Mass

    In this book George B. Stauffer explores the music and complex history of Bach's last and possibly greatest masterpiece. Stauffer examines the B-Minor Mass in greater detail than ever before, demonstrating for the first time Bach's reliance on contemporary models from the Dresden Mass...
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  • Musical Elaborations by Said, Edward
    Edward Said

    Musical Elaborations

    Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work,...
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  • Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures by Boulez, Pierre
    Pierre Boulez

    Music Lessons: The Coll鑒e de France Lectures

    Music Lessons marks the first publication in English of a groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the Coll ge de France between 1976 and 1995. The lectures presented here offer a sustained intellectual engagement with themes...
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  • Robert Schumann: The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer by Geck, Martin
    Martin Geck

    Robert Schumann: The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

    Robert Schumann (1810-56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury to his hand prevented him from...
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  • Modern Music and After by Griffiths, Paul
    Paul Griffiths

    Modern Music and After

    Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war,...
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  • Schumann by Jensen, Eric Frederick
    Eric Frederick Jensen

    Schumann

    Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, many of his compositions were inspired by poetry and novels. For much of his life he was better known as a music critic than...
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  • Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music by Kivy, Peter
    Peter Kivy

    Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music

    Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific...
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  • Vivaldi by Talbot, Michael
    Michael Talbot

    Vivaldi

    Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer...
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  • Brahms by MacDonald, Malcolm
    Malcolm MacDonald

    Brahms

    Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer...
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