8/13/2015

Beethoven: The Music and the Life - Lewis Lockwood - 2002

ISBN: 0393050815, 0393326381 | 2002 | EPUB | 624 pages | 19 MB
A fresh look at Beethoven's life, career, and milieu highlighting his development as a composer.

8/11/2015

Beethoven: The Composer as Hero" - Philippe A. Autexier - 1992

PDF | 1992 | 143 pages | ISBN: 0810928329 | English | 16 MB
A biography of the great composer retraces Beethoven's extraordinary life, from his early years as a child prodigy, through his sudden deafness at age twenty-six and initial contemplation of suicide, to his creative accomplishments beyond.

Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven: 1781-1802 - Daniel Heartz - 2008

2008 | ISBN: 0393066347 | English | 846 pages | EPUB | 23 MB
A vivid portrait of Mozart and Haydn's greatest achievements and young Beethoven's works under their influence.

8/04/2015

After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) - Maureen A. Carr - 2014

2014 | ISBN-10: 0199742936 | 328 pages | PDF | 42 MB
The riot that erupted during the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris has long been one of the most infamous and intriguing events of modern musical history.

The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes - Anatole Leikin - 2015

English | ISBN: 1409452247 | 2015 | 190 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Chopin's Twenty-Four Preludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published.

7/30/2015

Words Without Music: A Memoir [Audiobook] by Philip Glass

English | April 6, 2015 | ASIN: B00V3O12HM, ISBN: 1481529161 | MP3@64 kbps | 15 hrs 6 mins | 427 MB Narrator: Lloyd James | Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir
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The long-awaited memoir by "the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers." (New York Times)