Classical Music

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
(Harvard University Press Reference Library)
by Don Michael Randel (Editor)
Hardcover: Belknap Pr; ISBN: 0674372999; (November )

Classical Music : The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
by Phil G. Goulding
Paperback: Ballantine Books (Trd Pap)
ISBN: 0449910423; Reprint edition (November )

No Vivaldi in the Garage : A Requiem for Classical Music in North America
by Sheldon Morgenster.
(Hardcover)
 

Covent Garden, the Untold Story : Dispatches from the English Culture Wars, 1945-2000 by Norman Lebrecht A history of the Royal Opera House, London, established 1732. Db. Hardcover: 580 pages Northeastern Univ Pr; ISBN: 1555534880;

Bach, Beethoven and the Boys : Music History As It Ought to Be Taught
by David W. Barber, et al.
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.49 x 9.00 x 5.98
Sound And Vision Ltd; ISBN: 0920151108; 2nd edition (September )

The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
by Charles Rosen
(Hardcover)

Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School: 1740-1780
by Daniel Heartz
(Hardcover)

Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide 2002
(Paperback)

The Essential Canon of Classical Music
by David Dubal (Illustrator)
(Hardcover)

Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Life (1887-1959)
by David P. Appleb.
(Hardcover)
 

The Letters of Arturo Toscanini by Arturo Toscanini, Harvey Sachs (Editor) Hardcover: 528 pages Knopf; ISBN: 0375404058; (April 23, )

Music and Medicine : Chopin, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Mahler : Notes on Their Lives, Works, and Medical Histories
by Anton Neumay.
(Hardcover)

The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius
by Peter Kivy
The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is suddenly possessed, as if some outside force flows through him at the moment of creation. In other cases genius seems best explained as a natural gift. The artist is the possessor of an extra talent that enables the production of masterpiece after masterpiece. This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolized by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. Peter Kivy, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century. He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how the concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. 
(Hardcover -- October 1, )

Romantic Music: A Concise History from Schubert to Sibelius (World of Art)
by Arnold Whittall
(Paperback - May 1987)

A Short History of Opera
by Donald Jay Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams
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Bach, Johann Sebastian Bartok, Bela Beethoven, Ludwig van Berlioz, Hector Bernstein, Leonard Bizet, Georges Brahms, Johannes Britten, Benjamin Bruckner, Anton Cage, John Chopin, Frederic Copland, Aaron Debussy, Claude Dvorak, Antonin Elgar, Edward Gershwin, George Gilbert and Sullivan Glass, Philip Grieg, Edvard Handel, George Haydn, Joseph Holst, Gustav Liszt, Franz

Mahler, Gustav Mendelssohn, Felix Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mussorgsky, Modest Offenbach, Jacques Orff, Carl Pachelbel Prokofiev, Sergei Puccini, Giacomo Purcell, Henry Rachmaninoff, Sergei Ravel, Maurice Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Rossini, Gioacchino Saint-Saens, Camille Schoenberg, Arnold Schubert, Franz Schumann, Robert Shostakovich, Dmitrii Sibelius, Jean Sousa, John Philip Stockhausen, Karlheinz

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Barbirolli, John Bernstein, Leonard Boulez, Pierre Callas, Maria Caruso, Enrico Domingo, Placido Fiedler, Arthur Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

Furtwangler, Wilhelm Gould, Glenn Karajan, Herbert von Klemperer, Otto Menuhin, Yehudi Pavarotti, Luciano Previn, Andre

Price, Leontyne Rubinstein, Artur Schnabel, Artur Solti, Georg Stokowski, Leopold Tebaldi, Renata Toscanini, Arturo

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