Biographies

Der wilde Wohlklang

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Hans Werner Henze: Ein vielstimmiger Band über einen der widersprüchlichsten und prägendsten Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts – zwischen Avantgarde, Politik und persönlicher Klangsprache.

18,00 €

con tutta forza: Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Die intime Biografie von Bernd Alois Zimmermann, erzählt von seiner Tochter: ein vielschichtiges Porträt zwischen Avantgarde, Nachkriegskultur und künstlerischer Radikalität.

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 €

Eric Dolphy

A poetic and fragmentary biography of jazz visionary Eric Dolphy - multi-instrumentalist, innovator, and icon of the 1960s avant-garde.

24,00 €

„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 €