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  • The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kindsvolume 16 by Feldman, Martha
    Martha Feldman

    The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds Volume 16

    The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of...
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  • Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviewsvolume 21 by Nono, Luigi
    Luigi Nono

    Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews Volume 21

    Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924-1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his...
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  • The Thought of Music by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    The Thought of Music

    What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions--questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future....
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  • Russian Music at Home and Abroad: New Essays by Taruskin, Richard
    Richard Taruskin

    Russian Music at Home and Abroad: New Essays

    This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting....
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  • The Musical Legacy of Wartime France: Volume 16 by Sprout, Leslie A.
    Leslie A. Sprout

    The Musical Legacy of Wartime France: Volume 16

    For the three forces competing for political authority in France during World War II, music became the site of a cultural battle that reflected the war itself. German occupying authorities promoted German music at the expense of French, while the Vichy administration pursued projects...
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  • Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981volume 12 by Drott, Eric
    Eric Drott

    Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981 Volume 12

    In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May '68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern...
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  • The Danger of Music: And Other Anti-Utopian Essays by Taruskin, Richard
    Richard Taruskin

    The Danger of Music: And Other Anti-Utopian Essays

    The Danger of Music gathers some two decades of Richard Taruskin's writing on the arts and politics, ranging in approach from occasional pieces for major newspapers such as the New York Times to full-scale critical essays for leading intellectual journals. Hard-hitting, provocative, and incisive,...
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  • Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas by Brown-Montesano, Kristi
    Kristi Brown-Montesano

    Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas

    Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni's story the only one--or even the most interesting one--in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it's Mozart's men who have mattered most. Too often, the female...
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  • Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism by Herder, Johann Gottfried
    Johann Gottfried Herder

    Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism

    Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written...
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  • Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatasvolume 11 by Fisk, Charles
    Charles Fisk

    Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas Volume 11

    This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony, and his...
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  • Nineteenth-Century Music: Volume 5 by Dahlhaus, Carl
    Carl Dahlhaus

    Nineteenth-Century Music: Volume 5

    This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today.Dahlhaus organizes his book around "watershed" years--for example, 1830, the...
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  • Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion by Spencer, Stewart
    Stewart Spencer

    Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion

    There had long been a need for a modern English translation of Wagner's Ring--a version that would be reliable and readable yet at the same time be a true reflection of the literary quality of the German libretto. First published in 1993, this acclaimed...
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  • Handel's Messiah: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s by Dutkanicz, David
    David Dutkanicz

    Handel's Messiah: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s

    Beginning pianists of all ages can have the pleasure and satisfaction of playing one of classical music's best-known compositions with this edition of George Frideric Handel's Messiah. Based on the Book of Psalms from the King James Bible, the 1741 oratorio was originally an...
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  • A First Book of Verdi: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s by Dutkanicz, David
    David Dutkanicz

    A First Book of Verdi: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s

    Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi dominated the opera world for most of the nineteenth century, and his works remain a mainstay of theaters around the world. From Rigoletto's sprightly "La donna é mobile" to the rousing "Anvil Chorus" of Il Trovatore, the composer's music is...
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  • Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Full Score by Offenbach, Jacques
    Jacques Offenbach

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Full Score

    This is the last of nearly 100 operettas created by French composer Jacques Offenbach, a native of Germany whose works were most prominent in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His three-act drama Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), which includes a...
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  • Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Other Great Masterpieces by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and Others: Transcribed for Piano by Glover, Daniel
    Daniel Glover

    Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Other Great Masterpieces by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and Others: Transcribed for Piano

    This single-volume edition of hard-to-find arrangements of famous classical pieces offers terrific value to intermediate and advanced pianists. Designed to offer musicians a chance to play familiar masterworks, the selections encompass transcriptions by famous pianists, some of whom are remembered today solely for these...
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  • A First Book of Brahms: For the Beginning Pianist by Dutkanicz, David
    David Dutkanicz

    A First Book of Brahms: For the Beginning Pianist

    Suitable for beginning pianists of all ages, this volume features 26 simplified versions of longer pieces by the great Johannes Brahms arranged in order of increasing difficulty. Selections include the famous Lullaby as well as the theme from Academic Festival Overture and Hungarian Dance...
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  • Two Great Clarinet Quintets: Mozart's Quintet in a Major, K.581 & Brahms's Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Two Great Clarinet Quintets: Mozart's Quintet in a Major, K.581 & Brahms's Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115

    Mozart's friendship with Anton Stadler, the clarinetist in Vienna's Royal-Imperial Court Orchestra, led to the composition of his beloved Quintet in A Major. The four-movement piece is arranged for clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello. Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor, also in four...
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  • Complete Songs Without Words for Piano by Mendelssohn, Felix
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Complete Songs Without Words for Piano

    Mendelssohn's Lieder Ohne Worte, or "Songs without Words," is among the most loved, most played collections in the Romantic piano repertoire. Reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf & H舐tel edition, this volume contains all of these popular compositions -- more than 40 pieces, including such...
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  • Great Piano Adagios: 60 Works from Bach to Debussy by Dutkanicz, David
    David Dutkanicz

    Great Piano Adagios: 60 Works from Bach to Debussy

    Unique and comprehensive, this collection features a tremendous variety of slow movements for keyboard players, consisting of 60 pieces that span three centuries. Pianists will discover the music of many moods, from dreamlike nocturnes and lullabies to moving elegies and romantic slow dances, all...
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  • Early Italian Keyboard Music: 49 Works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Martini and Others by Esposito, M.
    M. Esposito

    Early Italian Keyboard Music: 49 Works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Martini and Others

    This outstanding anthology for keyboard players unites some of the finest works of Italy's major 17th- and 18th-century composers. Written for the harpsichord and clavichord, these 49 pieces by seventeen composers comprise sonatas, toccatas, fugues, and other works for keyboardists at early-intermediate to advanced...
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  • The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass as Practiced in the XVIIth & XVIIIth Centuries: Volume II by Arnold, F. T.
    F. T. Arnold

    The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass as Practiced in the XVIIth & XVIIIth Centuries: Volume II

    A solid grounding in musical techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. As scholar Denis Stevens says in his introduction to this work, Full enjoyment will come only when the soloist learns the gentle art...
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  • The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass as Practiced in the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries: Volume I by Arnold, F. T.
    F. T. Arnold

    The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass as Practiced in the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries: Volume I

    A solid grounding in musical techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. Arnold's legendary work is a comprehensive survey of the topic, covering every issue of significance to today's performers. The text is fully amplified...
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  • Symphony No. 6 in a Minor by Mahler, Gustav
    Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 6 in a Minor

    Dating from the composer's prolific period of 1903-04 and following Mahler's marriage to Alma Schindler by just a year, the draft of this remarkable work -- subtitled "Tragic" -- is represented by numerous recordings. The symphony incorporates "portraits" of Alma in the first movement...
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  • Rapsodie Espagnole, Mother Goose Suite, and Pavane for a Dead Princess in Full Score by Ravel, Maurice
    Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie Espagnole, Mother Goose Suite, and Pavane for a Dead Princess in Full Score

    With the premiere in 1908 of Rapsodie Espagnole, Ravel's first entirely orchestral composition, the French composer achieved renown as a highly original and imaginative composer. In 1911, he recast the Mother Goose Suite, his extremely successful music for piano four-hands, as an orchestral work....
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  • Requiem, K626, in Full Score by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem, K626, in Full Score

    A masterpiece of the choral literature, Mozart's Requiem, his last work, was commissioned in the summer of 1791 but left incomplete at the time of the composer's death in December of the same year. His colleague Franz S ssmayer finished the work, based on...
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  • Symphony No. 2 in C Minor: Resurrection by Mahler, Gustav
    Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 2 in C Minor: Resurrection

    One of the last great composers in the Austro-Germanic tradition, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) created nine symphonies (the now-legendary Symphony No. 10 was left unfinished) that explored far-reaching, innovative, and visionary approaches to melody, tonal organization, and formal structure. Outstanding among these is the work...
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  • Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 & Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2: With Orchestral Reduction for Second Piano by Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch
    Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 & Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2: With Orchestral Reduction for Second Piano

    This authoritative edition continues Dover's series of great piano concertos with orchestral reduction for second piano -- the universal standard, for students and professionals alike, for learning and rehearsing all concertos. Together for the first time are two of the most performed and recorded...
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  • Elijah in Full Score by Mendelssohn, Felix
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Elijah in Full Score

    One of the last works of German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), the oratorio Elijah was first performed at England's Birmingham Festival in August 1846. Elated by the audience's response, Mendelssohn wrote jubilantly to his brother: "Not less than four choruses and four airs were...
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  • Organ Works by Froberger, Johann Jakob
    Johann Jakob Froberger

    Organ Works

    Welcomed throughout Europe in the seventeenth century as a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist, Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-67) composed brilliantly for both instruments, his works a rich and appealing amalgam of Italian, French, and German keyboard styles. Especially through his organ music, this prolific German...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume III: Volume 3 by Spitta, Philipp
    Philipp Spitta

    Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume III: Volume 3

    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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  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: Volume 2 by Spitta, Philipp
    Philipp Spitta

    Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: Volume 2

    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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  • Etudes, Children's Corner, Images Book II: And Other Works for Piano by Debussy, Claude
    Claude Debussy

    Etudes, Children's Corner, Images Book II: And Other Works for Piano

    Many of the most admired of Debussy's piano works, reprinted from authoritative French editions, among them the Etudes (1915), a late work that richly displays the full range and depth of Debussy's genius for the piano, and the magical Children's Corner (1906-8). Also included:...
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  • Complete Organ Symphonies, Series I by Widor, Charles-Marie
    Charles-Marie Widor

    Complete Organ Symphonies, Series I

    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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  • Symphonies Nos. 22-34 in Full Score by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphonies Nos. 22-34 in Full Score

    Mozart wrote the 13 symphonies reprinted in this volume in Salzburg and Paris from 1773 to 1780. A number of the earlier works are Italianate in inspiration, in three-movement form, with brisk figures and simple textures. Two of these -- Symphony No. 25 in...
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  • Sixty Songs by Fauré, Gabriel
    Gabriel Fauré

    Sixty Songs

    The elegantly expressive songs in this volume are among the finest works of the composer generally regarded as the greatest master of the French song. Gabriel Fauré wrote then between 1861 and 1904, and gathered them into three collections, all reprinted here from authoritative...
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  • Great Romantic Violin Concertos in Full Score by Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Great Romantic Violin Concertos in Full Score

    This volume presents three of the most popular violin concertos, published together in one volume for the first time: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64Peter Ilyitch...
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  • Pelleas Et Melisande in Full Score by Debussy, Claude
    Claude Debussy

    Pelleas Et Melisande in Full Score

    Distinguished by its sure and economical craftsmanship, Pelleas et Melisande is Debussy's only opera -- a perfect marriage of music and verse that ranks as one of the great landmarks in the history of the form, so sublimely does the musical style fit Maeterlinck's...
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  • Symphonie Fantastique and Harold in Italy in Full Score by Berlioz, Hector
    Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique and Harold in Italy in Full Score

    Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), considered the father of modern orchestration, possessed an intuitive musical genius all the more remarkable for his limited formal musical education. A brilliant colorist, a master of the unexpected rhythmic break, he brought a new symphonic richness to Romantic music.Both damned...
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  • Three Orchestral Works in Full Score: Academic Festival Overture, Tragic Overture and Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn by Brahms, Johannes
    Johannes Brahms

    Three Orchestral Works in Full Score: Academic Festival Overture, Tragic Overture and Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn

    Johannes Brahms was one of music's greatest masters of classical forms, a composer whose individuality expanded and enriched those forms, giving them new variety of mood and a freshness of melodic invention. In writing for the orchestra, Brahms's independent approach brought unusual dramatic power...
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  • Piano Concertos Nos. 23-27 in Full Score by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concertos Nos. 23-27 in Full Score

    This volume contains Mozart's last five piano concertos: No. 23 in A Major, K488; No. 24 in C Minor, K491; No. 25 in C Major, K503; No. 26 in D Major, K537; and No. 27 in B-flat Major, K595. As a bonus in the...
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  • Selected Piano Works for Four Hands by Schubert, Franz
    Franz Schubert

    Selected Piano Works for Four Hands

    Franz Schubert's piano pieces for four hands are among the most varied and significant works in the entire repertoire. Schubert wrote more of these works than any other major composer, and generations of teachers, students, and concert musicians have enjoyed their enduring beauty and...
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  • Complete Piano Works for Four Hands by Brahms, Johannes
    Johannes Brahms

    Complete Piano Works for Four Hands

    This volume is the definitive playing edition of Brahms's complete works for four-hand piano, containing 81 compositions in all. These include the Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 23; the delightful Waltzes, Op. 39; the Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52a; Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes,...
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  • Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart was a faithful correspondent, and this full and expert collection of more than 100 letters covers his brief and tumultuous life, from the years when the child prodigy astonished the courts of Europe to his final days, when he wrote loving notes to...
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  • Mozart's Piano Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation by Zaslaw, Neal
    Neal Zaslaw

    Mozart's Piano Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation

    Like the symphonies of Beethoven, Mozart's piano concertos constitute an extraordinary body of work that will never disappear from our culture. Yet despite widespread recognition of their importance, they still present many interpretive problems. In 1989, the Michigan MozartFest brought expert performers, instrument makers,...
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  • Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal by Janis, Byron
    Byron Janis

    Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal

    One of the world's greatest classical pianists reveals how the ""other world"" transformed his life and careerBy any measure, Byron Janis has had an extraordinary musical career. His discovery of two long-lost Chopin scores made headlines around the world, and he has been honored...
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  • Lincoln Center: A Promise Realized, 1979-2006 by Stamas, Stephen
    Stephen Stamas

    Lincoln Center: A Promise Realized, 1979-2006

    The Journey Continues for the World's Most Prestigious Cultural AssociationThis book chronicles the major milestones in the artistic, physical, and administrative history of Lincoln Center's last two-and-a-half decades. Filled with over sixty beautiful black-and-white photographs that highlight the Center's rich cultural history, it illuminates...
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  • Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works by Goulding, Phil G.
    Phil G. Goulding

    Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works

    MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSICWho are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and...
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  • Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Pieces and Other Compositions [With CD (Audio)] by Badura-Skoda, Eva
    Eva Badura-Skoda

    Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Pieces and Other Compositions [With CD (Audio)]

    Paul Badura-Skoda is considered to be one of the great pianists of his generation, as well as an important scholar who has created definitive editions of many of the works of the Viennese masters, most notably Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart. With his wife, the noted...
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  • Nineteenth-Century Piano Music by Todd, R. Larry
    R. Larry Todd

    Nineteenth-Century Piano Music

    First Published in 2004. 19th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 19th-century repertoire, beginning with 2 chapters giving a general overview of the repertoire and keyboard technique of the era, and then individual chapters on Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann,...
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