5 best-selling biography memoir books like Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner

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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

By: John Eliot Gardiner

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can su…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Silence: Lectures and Writings

By: John Cage

4.22

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of "Cag… read more

Similar categories in John Cage's Silence: Lectures and Writings book and John Eliot Gardiner's Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
"The world is teeming; anything can happen."

-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

"If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not."

-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

"The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience."

-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

"...for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside."

-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

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2. Gravity

By: Tess Gerritsen

4.08

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

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"Dolayısıyla detaylara inanılmaz önem verir, her bir probleme potansiyel bir kriz gözüyle bakardı."

-Tess Gerritsen, Gravity

"The enemy was the microbial world, and over the centuries, it has killed more people than all of man's wars combined."

-Tess Gerritsen, Gravity

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3. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

By: Jan Swafford

4.25

Format: 1077 pages, Hardcover

Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered mu… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • classical music
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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4. 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

Similar categories in Haruki Murakami's Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa book and John Eliot Gardiner's Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography

5. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

By: Alex Ross

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryis a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • classical music
  • nonfiction
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6. Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being

By: Martin E.P. Seligman

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

"This book will help you flourish." With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psych… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness

By: Eric Metaxas

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Timesbest-sel… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

8. Living The Best Day Ever

By: Hendri Coetzee

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
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9. Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

By: John Eliot Gardiner

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can su… read more

Similar categories in John Eliot Gardiner's Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven book and John Eliot Gardiner's Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • classical music
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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10. The Cello Suites

By: Eric Siblin

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Hardcover

One autumn evening, shortly after ending a ten-year stint as a pop-music columnist for the Montreal… read more

Similar categories in Eric Siblin's The Cello Suites book and John Eliot Gardiner's Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • classical music
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

11. 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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12. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

By: Scott Adams

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you've ever met or anyone you've even hear… read more

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13. 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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14. Doctor Faustus

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

3.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed … read more

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15. 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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16. Mozart

By: Maynard Solomon

3.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Lif… read more

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17. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

By: Steven Lomazow

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more

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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

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18. "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

By: Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

4.31

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A GREAT MAN AND HIS UNHERALDED ASSISTANT For some 50 years, Paul Sochaczewski has been on the tr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The “facts"

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

"A key element in everyone’s hero’s journey is the “decision point,"

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

"The Wallace-Ali relationship reflects the great mythic “hero’s journey."

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

"Wallace would not have been as successful as he was without Ali’s support."

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

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19. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

By: Robert Mack McCormick

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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20. The Great Passion

By: James Runcie

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the s… read more

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  • music
  • classical music
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21. Mozart: The Reign of Love

By: Jan Swafford

4.33

Format: 832 pages, ebook

From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of th… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • classical music
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

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3.99

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Ann Schlee

4.06

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