Classical Composers History
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Bach's Musical Universe
- The Composer and His Work
- By: Christoph Wolff
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art.
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Bach's Musical Universe
- The Composer and His Work
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-04-20
- Language: English
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A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art....
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The Indispensable Composers
- A Personal Guide
- By: Anthony Tommasini
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Indispensable Composers, Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. What does it mean to be canonical now? Who gets to say? And do we have enough perspective on the 20th century to even begin assessing it? To make his case, Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time.
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The Indispensable Composers
- A Personal Guide
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
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Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time....
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The Classical Music Book
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From Mozart to Mendelssohn, this comprehensive guide to classical music history and classical music biography is the perfect latest addition to the best-selling Big Ideas series. Easy to understand and clear to follow, this history of classical music explores and explains music theory and the impact of seminal pieces, while also providing fascinating stories about the lives of crucial composers and performers. Including an insightful foreword by Katie Derham, The Classical Music Book analyses more than 90 works by famous composers.
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The Classical Music Book
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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From Mozart to Mendelssohn, this comprehensive guide to classical music history and classical music biography is the perfect latest addition to the best-selling Big Ideas series....
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Composers' Letters
- By: Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Narrated by: Jeremy Nicholas, Daniel Philpott, Edward de Souza
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Set against the music we know and love, Mozart, Beethoven, and many more come alive through their correspondence. Poignant, funny, revealing, informative and so often direct and honest, these letters offer a fascinating insight into the personalities that created our Western musical tradition.
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Insightful look into the composer's lives
- By TheSwiftFamily on 02-10-15
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Composers' Letters
- Narrated by: Jeremy Nicholas, Daniel Philpott, Edward de Souza
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 26-10-00
- Language: English
- In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love...
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Schubert
- A Musical Wayfarer
- By: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked. In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one.
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Schubert
- A Musical Wayfarer
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-12-23
- Language: English
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Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, and provides an insightful biography of the great composer, revealing his complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius....
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Maestros and Their Music
- The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
- By: John Mauceri
- Narrated by: John Mauceri
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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John Mauceri brings a lifetime of experience to bear in an unprecedented, hugely informative, consistently entertaining exploration of his profession, rich with anecdotes from decades of working alongside the greatest names of the music world. With candor and humor, Mauceri makes clear that conducting is itself a composition: of legacy and tradition, techniques handed down from master to apprentice - and more than a trace of ineffable magic.
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Of great interest
- By Amazon Customer on 11-05-23
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Maestros and Their Music
- The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
- Narrated by: John Mauceri
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 07-11-17
- Language: English
- An exuberant, uniquely accessible look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century....
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Classical Music 101
- By: Fred Plotkin
- Narrated by: Fred Plotkin
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers, including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Dvoxak, and Mahler. He describes all the musical instruments in the orchestra, defines major musical terms, and makes music theory comprehensible for the uninitiated. There are also conversations with important musicians who offer fascinating insights about their art.
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Very Disappointing
- By ZX80 on 17-06-06
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Classical Music 101
- Narrated by: Fred Plotkin
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-06-04
- Language: English
- In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers....
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A Musician’s Guide to Classical Works
- A Detailed, Interactive Exploration of the Structure and Style of Pieces from Bach, Mozart, Debussy and Other Great Composers
- By: Hugo Yohana
- Narrated by: Ian Cullen
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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This guide provides introductory and closing commentary for works from many famous classical composers, and includes time-stamped commentary to explain the technical aspects of what is being heard in the piece and the composer's intent in real time. This innovative audiobook enables you to hear both the music and the commentary in parallel.
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A Musician’s Guide to Classical Works
- A Detailed, Interactive Exploration of the Structure and Style of Pieces from Bach, Mozart, Debussy and Other Great Composers
- Narrated by: Ian Cullen
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 23-11-21
- Language: English
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This guide provides introductory and closing commentary for works from many famous classical composers, and includes time-stamped commentary to explain the technical aspects of what is being heard in the piece and the composer's intent in real time....
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Ludwig van Beethoven
- Masters of Classical Music
- By: The History Hour
- Narrated by: Jerry Beebe
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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Probably the most naturally gifted musician the world has ever known, Mozart began his career early as a child prodigy. By the age of five, he was already proficient in the violin, the harpsichord, and piano keyboard. He had also begun composing music that had integrity. Ludwig van Beethoven is a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music. Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age. Listen to the full biographies of these two musicians, from the beginning to the end!
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Ludwig van Beethoven
- Masters of Classical Music
- Narrated by: Jerry Beebe
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 27-06-19
- Language: English
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Probably the most naturally gifted musician the world has ever known, Mozart began his career early as a child prodigy. Ludwig van Beethoven is a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music. Learn about them in this audiobook....
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Mozart in the Jungle
- Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
- By: Blair Tindall
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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In a book that inspired the Amazon original series starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Malcolm McDowell, oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musician, from the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth in the backbiting New York classical music scene, trading sexual favors for plum jobs and assignments in orchestras across the city.
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Pronounce Classical terms Correctly!
- By Brooke Michelle Bowers on 26-03-24
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Mozart in the Jungle
- Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 31-03-15
- Language: English
- Mozart in the Jungle delves into the lives of the musicians and conductors who inhabit the insular world of classical music....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
- A Biography of One of History's Most Influential Composers
- By: Rick Marschall
- Narrated by: Mark Smeby
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Two-and-a-half centuries after his death, the complex life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach continues to fascinate. Bach's colorful life was anchored in his belief that "music has been ordered by God's Spirit"?so much so that he began each composition by scrawling Jesu, juva (Jesus, help me) at the top of a blank page and concluded each with S.D.G. (short for Soli Deo Gloria, to God alone be the glory). Through the eyes of noted music and culture writer Rick Marschall, the intensely personal yet boldly public faith that earned Bach the nickname "The Fifth Evangelist" takes on fresh meaning.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
- A Biography of One of History's Most Influential Composers
- Narrated by: Mark Smeby
- Series: Christian Encounters Series
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 20-06-23
- Language: English
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Two-and-a-half centuries after his death, the complex life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach continues to fascinate. Marschall brings Bach's enduring music and influence to the postmodern world and to all who would draw inspiration from his relentless pursuit of divinely ordained creativity....
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Beethoven
- The Relentless Revolutionary
- By: John Clubbe
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
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Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of 21 to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon.
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Beethoven
- The Relentless Revolutionary
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven's political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions....
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Sound Bites
- The Bendy Path of Classical Music from Ancient Greece to Today
- By: Ed Le Brocq
- Narrated by: Ed Le Brocq
- Length: 6 hrs
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Ed Le Brocq invites you on a journey through a living tradition that spans millennia – the tradition of Western classical music. With Ed, you will roam its magnificently bendy path, from the Mesopotamians to the mediaeval age to music composed just last week by Australia's most creative minds. You will discover how notes from the Indus Valley influenced the development of scales by Pythagoras and his mates in Ancient Greece, finding their way through the Romans into church music of the Middle Ages, and why some of those notes were banned.
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Sound Bites
- The Bendy Path of Classical Music from Ancient Greece to Today
- Narrated by: Ed Le Brocq
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 20-09-23
- Language: English
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Ed Le Brocq invites you on a journey through a living tradition that spans millennia – the tradition of Western classical music....
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