11 Best music books like Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Judith Chernaik

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Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

By: Judith Chernaik

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds n…

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1. Johannes Brahms: A Biography

By: Jan Swafford

4.43

Format: 699 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Notable Book "This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to...become … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift for turning everything to the purpose. ... Perhaps that is a common element in the story …"

-Jan Swafford, Johannes Brahms: A Biography

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2. Play it Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible

By: Alan Rusbridger

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The Guardian editor’s account of a remarkable musical challenge during an extraordinary year for ne… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Great Masters: Liszt His Life & Music by Robert Greenberg

3. Great Masters: Liszt His Life & Music

By: Robert Greenberg

4.49

Format: 338 pages, Audio Cassette

Course Lecture Titles 1. Le Concert, C'est MoiThe Concert is Me 2. A Born Pianist 3. Revelation 4. … read more

Similar categories in Robert Greenberg's Great Masters: Liszt His Life & Music book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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4. Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman

By: Nancy B. Reich

4.22

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara W… read more

Similar categories in Nancy B. Reich's Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. With Your Own Two Hands: Self-Discovery Through Music

By: Seymour Bernstein

4.00

Format: None pages,

This best-seller by the nationally acclaimed pianist is a realistic program for conquering nervousn… read more

Similar categories in Seymour Bernstein's With Your Own Two Hands: Self-Discovery Through Music book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • music
  • nonfiction

7. The Confusions of Young Törless

By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more

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8. Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847

By: Alan Walker

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic m… read more

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9. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

By: Christoph Wolff

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the compos… read more

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10. The Joy of Music

By: Tim Page , Leonard Bernstein

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

This classic work is perhaps Bernstein's finest collection of conversations on the meaning and wond… read more

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11. The Man Without Qualities

By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike

4.19

Format: 1774 pages, Paperback

Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so… read more

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"Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!"

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

"Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen."

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

"[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!"

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

"Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben."

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

12. La's Orchestra Saves the World

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

La Stone is a widow who, as the Nazi threat looms, assembles a ragtag orchestra in rural Suffolk in… read more

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13. The Three-Cornered World

By: Natsume Sōseki , None

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

"An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, but when he decides to stay… read more

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14. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

Similar categories in Plato's The Symposium book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • nonfiction
  • history
"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

15. Great Masters: Brahms- His Life and Music

By: Robert Greenberg

4.33

Format: None pages,

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16. True History of the Kelly Gang

By: Peter Carey

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more

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17. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

Similar categories in Geddy Lee's My Effin' Life book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There

By: Garrett M. Graff

3.73

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Garrett M. Graff comes the first comprehensive and eye-openi… read more

Similar categories in Garrett M. Graff's UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. The Wolf

By: Nate Blakeslee

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

ASIN moved from this edition The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprece…"

-Nate Blakeslee, The Wolf

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20. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

Similar categories in Werner Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

Similar categories in Marc Morris's The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066 book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. Machines like Me

By: Ian McEwan

3.59

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing a… read more

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"Caen las hojas. Llega la primavera, y tu caída."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"could tell you similar stories of machine sadness."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"Nel suo sguardo, c'è un mondo d'amore. Amo il mondo!"

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"But when you’ve lost a fortune, you don’t clean up the kitchen."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

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23. Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

By: Judith Chernaik

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds n… read more

Similar categories in Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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24. Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

By: Jeremy Denk

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music--its p… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Denk's Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"You passed. But have you considered the word "la"?"

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

"And what else is music but a space for us to live in, for a while."

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

"Remember: music is not the notes. It is between the notes. [György Sebők]"

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

"Evil moment, when you doubt the magician's magic, when you wonder if it was more image than insight."

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

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25. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more

Similar categories in Volker Ullrich's Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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27. Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

By: Alan Walker

4.43

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, P… read more

Similar categories in Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • 19th century
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

28. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

Similar categories in Fareed Zakaria's Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide

By: Anthony Tommasini

3.87

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

An exploration into the question of greatness from the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I gained a sense of why Grieg was so touched by the wistful, elegiac folk music of Norway, and what he meant when he said self-effacingly that his music had a 'taste of cod' about it."

-Anthony Tommasini, The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide

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30. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

By: Jeremy Desilva

4.33

Format: 352 pages, ebook

In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seem… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Desilva's First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human book and Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

  • nonfiction
  • history
"...Bipedalism in an overly aggressive ape with purely selfish tendencies and a low tolerance for other group member would have been a recipe for extinction."

-Jeremy Desilva, First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

Cover of Great Masters: Haydn - His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg

31. Great Masters: Haydn - His Life and Music

By: Robert Greenberg

4.41

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Almost from the moment it was first set to paper, the music of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - tec… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

16 must-read history books like Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Judith Chernaik

Transform Your Habits

Johannes Brahms: A Biography

Jan Swafford

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Great Masters: Liszt His Life & Music

Robert Greenberg

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman

Nancy B. Reich

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

2.67

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15 Top audiobook books like Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich by Volker Ullrich

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

Katja Hoyer

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

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