Biographies

Biographies and artist profiles from the worlds of music, jazz, contemporary music, and contemporary history.

Music Is (also) a Women’s Affair

Esther Abramis’s inspiring book about forgotten female composers, classical music, social media, and the courage to speak out as a woman.

18,00 €

Musik ist (auch) Frauensache

Esther Abramis’s inspiring book about forgotten female composers, classical music, social media, and the courage to make oneself visible as a woman.

18,00 €

Die Henze Challenge

A challenge for the ears: Christoph Becher invites you to discover twelve works by Hans Werner Henze —with QR codes, a playlist, and an entertaining and accessible journey through one of the most exciting soundscapes of the 20th century.

24,00 €

I welcome whatever happens next

Klaus Reichert Remembers John Cage – a book about music, listening, and collaboration. Told with precision and calm, it opens up new perspectives on sound, language, and the art of listening.

14,99 € – 28,00 €

Der neue wilde Wohlklang

On the 100th anniversary of Hans Werner Henze’s birth: A multifaceted volume on one of the most contradictory and influential composers of the 20th century—spanning the avant-garde, politics, and his personal musical language.

18,00 €

con tutta forza: Bernd Alois Zimmermann

The Intimate Biography of Bernd Alois Zimmermann, as told by his daughter: a multifaceted portrait spanning the avant-garde, postwar culture, and artistic radicalism.

39,00 €

Die Welt strukturieren queeren [?]

Structuring the world queerly — an essay on compositional thinking beyond music. Eloain Lovis Hübner understands composition as a transdisciplinary practice of structuring, opening and queering the world.

16,00 €

Parsifal’s Seduction

Bibliophile collector's edition of the novel with mounted illustrations by artist Alexander Polzin

38,00 € – 48,00 €

Dvořáks Prophezeiung

About hidden aspects of American music history and the composer Antonín Dvořák.

34,00 €

Rued Langgaard

The biography of the Danish composer on the occasion of the Berlin performance of the opera “Antikrist“.

24,00 € – 28,00 €

Dear Billy

The book sheds light on the life of William Pearson in the field of tension between new music, racism and artistic emancipation.

38,00 €

George Gershwin

The biography of a composer whose symphonic and operatic music ranges from blue notes to double counterpoint, bitonality, and the Tristan chord.

32,00 €

Anton Bruckner

Kohrs' concise analyses convey a new image of Bruckner.

24,00 €

“God is in the House”

This book is the first to reconstruct in detail the often blurred traces of the life of Art Tatum, the legendary African-American jazz pianist.

48,00 €

Camille Saint-Saëns

"I, on the other hand, pursued the chimera of purity of style and perfection of form", Saint-Saëns wrote in 1885, directing his "énergie intellectuelle" towards classicism in the midst of romantic seduction.

9,50 €

„Spielen Sie Stockhausen wie Beethoven“

Biography and pedagogical work of one of the most versatile of the great pianists of the 20th century.

42,00 €