Biographies

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.

29,00 €

con tutta forza. Bernd Alois Zimmermann

A compelling portrait of the composer, caught between artistic vision and personal struggles—featuring unpublished documents, photos, and interviews.

39,00 €

Not, List und Lust

New edition: edition second, greatly expanded edition. Music between conformity and truth.

29,80 €

Dimitri Schostakowitsch

Shostakovich's music as a musical testimony to his time – a powerful monograph about fear, hope, and the power of art.

28,00 €

Der Komponisten Mut und die Tyrannei des Geschmacks

Insights into the struggle with sound, form, and meaning: conversations with composers about what lies behind the music.

24,00 €

Ein halbes Jahrhundert Musik

A unique exchange of letters between two musicians - personal, poetic and historically deeply moving.

49,00 €

Alexi Matchavariani

Alexi Matchavariani blended Georgian folk music with contemporary composition—a portrait of his work, situated between cultural identity and modernity.

29,00 €

Leben in zwei Welten

Rudolf Barschai was one of the legendary musicians that Russia produced after World War II.

29,00 €

Ulrich Gasser

Ulrich Gasser's music is emotional, worldly and characterized by art, places and memory.

39,00 €

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