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Classical Music Books
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.10 � 15,584 ratings � published 2007
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.25 � 1,785 ratings � published 2014
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 � 1,663 ratings � published 2013
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.23 � 1,489 ratings � published 1971
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 � 6,625 ratings � published 2011
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 � 9,034 ratings � published 1939
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 � 1,589 ratings � published 1970
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.27 � 458 ratings � published 1992
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.02 � 2,495 ratings � published 2009
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 � 1,177 ratings � published 2020
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.12 � 62,363 ratings � published 2022
Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.18 � 1,757 ratings � published 1977
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 � 25,859 ratings � published 2016
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.01 � 607 ratings � published 2002
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 � 65,951 ratings � published 2006
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.45 � 572 ratings � published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 � 721 ratings � published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.21 � 1,124 ratings � published 2000
An Equal Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.80 � 10,869 ratings � published 1999
Classical Music for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 � 631 ratings � published 1997
Mozart (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 � 1,214 ratings � published 1995
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 � 855 ratings � published 1997
The Great Pianists (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.05 � 839 ratings � published 1963
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.10 � 424 ratings � published
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.41 � 1,309 ratings � published 2017
Mozart: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.68 � 655 ratings � published 1999
Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 � 338 ratings � published 2002
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.73 � 433 ratings � published 2010
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.97 � 6,458 ratings � published 2000
Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.07 � 911 ratings � published 2012
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.35 � 6,198 ratings � published 2015
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.39 � 3,100 ratings � published 2005
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.35 � 402 ratings � published 2012
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.95 � 71,929 ratings � published 2007
The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.23 � 117 ratings � published 2006
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection: The 350 Essential Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.92 � 219 ratings � published 1991
Classical Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 � 47 ratings � published 2001
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.37 � 38 ratings � published 2006
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 � 551 ratings � published 2001
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.90 � 1,570 ratings � published 2018
Beethoven: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.30 � 319 ratings � published 2009
Gustav Mahler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 � 169 ratings � published 2003
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.59 � 978 ratings � published 2010
Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 � 582 ratings � published 2001
A History of Opera (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.14 � 328 ratings � published 2012
Chopin: A New Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.15 � 483 ratings � published 1979
Chopin's Letters (Dover Books On Music: Composers)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 � 226 ratings � published 1931
Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.93 � 190 ratings � published 1998
Evening in the Palace of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 � 1,204 ratings � published 2005
The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 5 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 � 209 ratings � published 1995
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“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if you've never retreated to the solitude of a dark room and listened to Beethoven's Ninth from start to finish, you know nothing. For music is a transcendental exploration of human emotion and experience, the very fabric of life in its purest form. And the Ninth our greatest musical achievement.”
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