Biographies

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

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 €

„Alles kommt ans Licht“

A self-portrait of a composer: Rihm on his origins, attitude and artistic thinking.

9,50 €

Anthony Braxton. Creative Music

This richly illustrated book traces Braxton's career in a detailed overall presentation. A portrait of a pioneer of creative music.

68,00 €

Géza Anda. Pianist

A portrait volume on the 100th birthday of the great pianist.

28,00 €

Walter Gieseking

65 years after his death, the first book about one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.

19,00 €

His Master’s Voice

Entertaining, exciting and highly informative, Herbert Haffner tells the story of sound recording from its beginnings with cylinders to today's streaming portals.

24,00 €

Briefe an Iwan Sollertinski

Nowhere does the Soviet composer reveal himself as candidly as in his letters to his best friend, Ivan Sollertinsky.

36,00 €

Die Sprache des Hasses

Analysis of Wagner's pamphlet as an example of ethnic hate speech and rhetorical structure in the context of 19th-century German cultural nationalism.

8,00 €

Margarete Dessoff (1874 – 1944)

The biography of the almost forgotten Frankfurt conductor and innovator in German choral music.

29,80 €

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Furtwängler’s Life Between Music, Power, and Myth – A New Perspective by Herbert Haffner.

46,00 €

Desert Plants

A unique contemporary document of experimental music history.

29,00 €

Leonard Bernstein

A richly illustrated volume about Leonard Bernstein's multifaceted relationship with Vienna.