6 Top music books like Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians: Revisited by Steven Isserlis by Robert Schumann

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Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians: Revisited by Steven Isserlis

By: Robert Schumann

3.94

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Schumann was far ahead of his time, not least in his attitude to children and young people; …

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1. 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
  • nonfiction
  • classical music
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2. The Spinoza Problem

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.25

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic rema… read more

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"Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"Omul fiind in totalitate parte a naturii, este incorect sa credem ca omul mai degraba tulbura, decat sa respecte ordinea naturii."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"تمام قوم اسرائیل در نگرش محترمانه خود به تورات، در همان گناهی دخیل بودند که خدا به وسیله موسی به آنها هشدار داده بود: بت برستی. در همه جا یهودیان نه بت هایی طلایی بلکه بت هایی از «کاغذ و جوهر» را می …"

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

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3. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

By: Haruki Murakami , Seiji Ozawa

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclai… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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4. To Have and Have Not

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.52

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into runnin… read more

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"He was mad and plenty brave."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

5. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

By: Sam Kean

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and … read more

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7. Animal Farm / 1984

By: George Orwell , Christopher Hitchens

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This edition features George Orwell's best known novels - 1984and Animal Farm- with an introduction… read more

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8. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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9. Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

By: Charles Rosen

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Among the world's instruments, the piano stands out as the most versatile, powerful, and misunderst… read more

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10. Metamorphoses

By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more

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11. What to Listen for in Music

By: Alan Rich , Aaron Copland , William Schuman

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to music intelligently, Aaron Copland raises two basi… read more

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12. Mothering Sunday

By: Graham Swift

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more

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13. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb

4.02

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more

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"Homo homini monstrum"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"Oh! Everything I loved!"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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14. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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15. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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16. Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More

By: Stephen Hough CBE

4.01

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numer… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • classical music
  • essays
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17. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

By: Baek Se-hee

3.28

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more

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"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

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18. Learn Like a Pro

By: Barbara Oakley

4.14

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A book for learners of all ages containing the best and most updated advice on learning from neuros… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

By: Geoff Dyer

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathry… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. Bach Cello Suites

By: Steven Isserlis

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Bach's six Cello Suites are among the most cherished of all the works in the classical music litera… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians: Revisited by Steven Isserlis

By: Robert Schumann

3.94

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Schumann was far ahead of his time, not least in his attitude to children and young people; … read more

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