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1.Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned MusicianJohann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
from W.W. Norton & Co.
Price: $13.27

Customer Review:
2 1/2 stars.
I have a strict rule about reading books -- if I start it, I finish it and I read three books per week on the average and have done so for many years, all genres.
In this instance, I wanted to read a really intricate biography of J.S. Bach and landed on this one which I... more info

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2.Secret Lives of Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World s Musical MastersSecret Lives of Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters
from Quirk Books
Price: $9.80

Customer Review:
Artists, authors and now composers. The dryly humorous series continues, telling you things that would have music class much more interesting had the teacher only known. It, albeit unintentionally I'm sure, humanizes its subjects and blows the dust off of their histories. Wagner in pink lingerie... more info

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3.Silence: Lectures and WritingsSilence: Lectures and Writings
from Wesleyan
Price: $13.54

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John Cage is certainly an individual. His mind is an adventure to traverse, and his philosophy is certain to make you look at sound in a different way. The text consists of his lectures and essays. Interspersed are anecdotes, some of which have have no conceivable point and all of which have no... more info

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4.Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri ShostakovichTestimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
from Limelight Editions
Price: $9.00

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I'm still reading the book, but I have read enough to have realized how malignant the Soviet Regime was. I am also left amazed, alarmed and dissapointed that the Russians are still willing to grant their leader (Putin) unlimited power, that they are willing have dissent stifled, tolerate murder of... more info

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5.Beethoven s Hair : An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery SolvedBeethoven's Hair : An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
from Broadway
Price: $5.17

Customer Review:
The premise of"Beethoven's Hair"is that in 1827,a day or two after the death of the composer,a teenaged boy and his gaurdian,alone with the corpse,snipped a lock of the dead man's hair as a keepsake..Alledgedly this hair was placed into a locket and passed on to the next generation,after which it... more info

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6.Chopin In Paris: The Life And Times Of The Romantic ComposerChopin In Paris: The Life And Times Of The Romantic Composer
from Da Capo Press
Price: $10.95

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This book tells the story of Chopin's relationship with the author, George Sand (a female forced to use a man's name in order to get her works published), and how their intimacy led to the composition of more and more beautiful music by Chopin. The backdrop of 19th century Paris, populated by... more info

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7.Johannes Brahms: A BiographyJohannes Brahms: A Biography
from Vintage
Price: $12.14

Customer Review:
This is the most enjoyable book I've read (so far) in 2009. As an amateur pianist I've been witness to the glory that is Brahms (e.g. shorter piano works; "veiled symphonies", as Robert Schumann referred to some of Brahms' piano compositions). This thoroughly researched yet non-technical (not too... more info

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8.Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives)Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives)
from Harper Collins
Price: $5.75

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Morris, best known for his authorship of the superb T. Roosevelt biographies, and (by some accounts) the less superb Reagan biography, here has quite a difficult trick to pull off: write a biography in under two hundred pages, that still feels complete--not like a rushed, terse, wikipedia entry. It... more info

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9.Beethoven (Revised Edition)Beethoven (Revised Edition)
from Schirmer Trade Books
Price: $9.99

Customer Review:
I found this book unreadable and extremely boring. It was so dense with meaningless detail that the narrative flow virtually ceased - the endless inclusion of irrelevant detail sucked the life right out of the book for me. After a while I began skimming the pages in an effort to escape the onslaught... more info

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10.[no image]The Lives of the Great Composers
from W W Norton & Co Inc
Price: $16.00

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My son's piano teacher recommended, then I think it is worth to buy and keep it.

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