Classical
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Mozart: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartA biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history
Mozart’s unshakable hold on the public’s consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay’s concise and deft lo- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037730
- Language: English
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The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
$22.00 Add to cartThe premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year–and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compo
- Author: Sachs, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969073
- Language: English
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The Story Orchestra: I Can Play: Swan Lake: Learn 8 Easy Pieces from the Series!
$24.99 Add to cartWho says you need lessons to start making music? With The Story Orchestra: I Can Play: Swan Lake, every child can be the star of the show. Discover the enchanting world of Swan Lake in this interactiv
- Series: Story Orchestra
- Author: Courtney-Tickle, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 20
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1836007442
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-cen… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593466713
- Language: English
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Listen to the Music at Christmas
$24.99 Add to cartJoin Pip and Sammy as they travel the world, listening to the most famous pieces of Christmas music. Meet the composers who dreamed them up and set the tone for Christmas for hundreds of years.
From th- Series: Listen to the Music
- Author: Richards, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1836005830
- Language: English
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I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms
$32.00 Add to cartA vivid personal account of a Golden Age in classical music–the second half of the 20th century–providing a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the inner workings of a top symphony orchestra.
Nancy Shea- Author: Shear, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888456620
- Language: English
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Beethoven
$15.99 Add to cartLearn about the inspiring story of Ludwig van Beethoven, the groundbreaking pianist and composer who changed the shape of classical music.
Little Ludwig grew up in the city of Bonn in Germany. His fath
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #134
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836008155
- Language: English
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South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene
$24.95 Add to cartBetween the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose … [more below]
- Series: Music in American Life
- Author: Ege, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0252088336
- Language: English
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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet
$25.95 Add to cartThe clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book…. Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere…. Rischin lovingly brings to life the other musicians–?t
- Author: Rischin, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0801472970
- Language: English
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Complete Preludes, Books 1 and 2
$19.95 Read moreHere, in one volume, are two bodies of work that, perhaps more than any others, reveal the essence of Claude Debussy’s extraordinary expressiveness and his innovative gifts for musical imagery. Each b
- Series: Dover Music for Piano
- Author: Debussy, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0486259706
- Language: English
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The American Vignola: A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture
$21.95 Read more“Vignola codified the rules of classical architecture for the Italian Renaissance . . . Ware codified Vignola for the American Renaissance.” — John Barrington Bayley, from the Introductory Notes to T… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Ware, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0486283100
- Language: English
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The Golden Ass
$14.00 Add to cartAn enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats
Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Apuleius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140435905
- Language: English
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The Music Inside Us: Yo-Yo Ma and His Gifts to the World (a Picture Book Biography)
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a bestselling and award-winning team comes a moving, gorgeously illustrated picture-book biography of one of the greatest cellists of all time, Yo-Yo Ma, and his lifelong passion for using music … [more below]
- Author: Howe, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1419755218
- Language: English
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Spirto Gentil: An Invitation to Listen to Great Music with Luigi Giussani
$32.00 Add to cartWhen he was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussani’s singing class played a recording of an aria from a Donizetti opera, “Spirto gentil” (“Gentle spirit, you once shone in my dreams, but af
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821880
- Language: English
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Spirto Gentil: An Invitation to Listen to Great Music with Luigi Giussani
$19.00 Add to cartWhen he was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussani’s singing class played a recording of an aria from a Donizetti opera, “Spirto gentil” (“Gentle spirit, you once shone in my dreams, but af
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821872
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$38.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARD
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its represe- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 525505997
- Language: English
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101 Classical Themes for Violin
$16.99 Add to cart(Instrumental Folio). This huge collection offers instrumentalists the chance to play 101 classical themes, including: Ave Maria * Bist du bei mir (You Are with Me) * Canon in D * Clair de Lune * Danc… [more below]
- Author: Hal Leonard Corp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1495056317
- Language: English
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
$25.00 Read moreDrawing extensively on Russian-language sources, a concise yet comprehensive survey of the life and work of one of classical music’s great composers.
Unquestionably one of the most popular composers- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Mitchell, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145767
- Language: English
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Complete Preludes and Etudes
$28.99 Read moreChopin’s piano works are of such uniformly high quality that they are all absolutely essential in the repertoire of any aspiring pianist. The Preludes and Etudes are exquisitely beautiful examples of … [more below]
- Series: Dover Music for Piano
- Author: Chopin, Frédéric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 1980
- ISBN10: 0486240525
- Language: English
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Nocturnes and Barcarolles for Solo Piano
$24.95 Read moreThe music of Gabriel Faur (1845-1924) is an important link between the innovations of late Romanticism and the experimentation of the early 20th century. A student of Saint-Sa ns, he, in turn, taught… [more below]
- Series: Dover Music for Piano
- Author: Fauré, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0486279553
- Language: English
