Music History: Books on Classical to Present

Kinderman explores works of major composers from the eighteenth century to the present, from Mozart's piano music and Beethoven's Piano Trio in F to Kurtág's Kafka Fragments and Hommage à R. Sch.

A vital resource for any conductor, performer, or aficionado of classical music. Dennis Shrock brings together in one place writings from more than 100 Classical-era authors and composers about performance practices of music during their time.

A single-volume guide to composers.

Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary sources, including a veritable treasure trove of previously unexamined material on Liszt's Weimar years, best-selling author Oliver Hilmes shines a spotlight on the extraordinary life and career of this singularly dazzling musical phenomenon.

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was perhaps the twentieth century's most celebrated composer. Cross's biography enables us to see Stravinsky's life and artistic achievement in a new light, understanding how his work both reflected and shaped his times.

The story of the intertwined lives of four people: Ludwig von Beethoven; a concert pianist who was a self-taught child prodigy; a fanatical inventor who disassembled pianos as a child; and a television cameraman who became a music entrepreneur in order to translate the music he loved into the first recording of Beethoven