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Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds n…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