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  • Haydn: His Life and Music

    by David Vickers ...
    Haydn was among the first great composers whose fame in his own lifetime endured after his death. While he is loved for a handful of popular, tuneful symphonies and the oratorio The Creation, the broader scope of Haydns musical achievements and his fascinating life have been overshadowed by the prodigious brilliance of his friend Mozart and the rebellious daring of his pupil Beethoven. This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Inside Management

    Studying Organizational Practices

    by David Vickers ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This pivot includes a series of inside ethnographic accounts and stories about managerial practices and processes, providing a critical account of managerial and HR practices. It seeks to advance thinking in the theoretical areas of strategy-as-practice (SasP), Actor-Network Theory, human resource management practices and safety as practice. Offering a unique insider insight to decision-making and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Handel

    Edited by David Vickers ...
    Series series The Baroque Composers
    This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms our knowledge of large-scale English works to an interdisciplinary exploration of an ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Tchaikovsky: His Life and Music

    by Jeremy Siepmann ...
    Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers who ever lived. He is also one of the most misunderstood, as both man and musician, and looks destined to remain among the most controversial. Widely misrepresented as an emotional voluptuary and typecast as a crazy Russian genius, he was, in fact, a highly disciplined and masterly craftsman of pronounced classical leanings, and a man whose volatile ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Beethoven, a character study; together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven

    by George Alexander Fischer ...
    "Beethoven: A Character Study" by George Alexander Fischer delves into the complex personality of Ludwig van Beethoven, exploring the emotional depth and resilience that defined the composer. Fischer examines Beethoven's tumultuous life, marked by personal struggles and profound creativity, revealing how these experiences shaped his music. The book highlights Beethoven's innovative spirit and his ... Read more

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  • Discovering Classical Music: Strauss

    by Ian Christians ...
    Series series Discovering Classical Music
    "I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical music can be highly intimidating and confusing. Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in ... Read more

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  • Strings Attached

    The Life and Music of John Williams

    by William Starling ...
    Strings Attached is the much anticipated authorised biography of John Williams, one of the most accomplished and celebrated musicians of his generation. From his childhood in Australia to his stellar career in London and around the world, John Williams has lived an extraordinary life. Master of the classical repertoire, he took the guitar to a wider audience with the band SKY and by his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mozart: The Man and the Artist

    by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...
    The German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was not only a musical genius, but was also one of the pre-eminent geniuses of the Western world. He defined in his music a system of musical thought and an entire state of mind that were unlike any previously experienced. A true child prodigy, he began composing at age 5 and rapidly developed his unmistakable style; by 18 he was composing ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Prince

    Purple Reign

    by Mick Wall ...
    This is the powerful, detailed and enlightening biography of the iconic composer, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist - the inimitable Prince.Prince was an icon. A man who defined an era of music and changed the shape of popular culture forever. There is no doubt that he was one of the most talented and influential artists of all time, and also one of the most mysterious. On 21st April ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Chopin's Funeral

    by Benita Eisler ...
    Frédéric 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, the Polish émigré was for a while blessed with genius, acclaim, and the love of Europe’s most infamous woman writer, George Sand. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Beethoven: The Music and the Life

    The Music and the Life

    by Lewis Lockwood ...
    An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books.This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Moanin' at Midnight

    The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf

    by James Segrest, Mark Hoffman ...
    Howlin’ Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darkest sorrows onstage in a voice like a raging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits, his sound still terrifies and inspires.Born Chester Burnett in 1910, the Wolf survived a grim childhood and hardscrabble youth as a sharecropper in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD