Biographies

Book cover: Rued Langgaard

Rued Langgaard

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

24,00 € – 28,00 €
Book cover: Dear Billy

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 €
Book cover: George Gershwin

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 €
Book cover: Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner

Kohrs' concise analyses convey a new image of Bruckner.

24,00 €
Book cover: “God is in the House”

“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 €
Book cover: Camille Saint-Saëns

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 €
Book cover: Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy

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

24,00 €
Book cover: “Play Stockhausen Like Beethoven”

„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 €
Book cover: “Everything Comes to Light”

„Alles kommt ans Licht“

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

9,50 €
Book cover: Anthony Braxton. Creative Music

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 €
Book cover: Géza Anda. Pianist

Géza Anda. Pianist

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

28,00 €
Book cover: Walter Gieseking

Walter Gieseking

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

19,00 €
Book Cover: Letters to Ivan Sollertinski

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 €
Book cover: [re]visiting Moers Festival

[re]visiting Moers Festival

Texts, photos and a chronology of 50 years of the Moers Festival.

24,00 €
Book Cover: The Language of Hate

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 €
Book cover: Margarete Dessoff (1874–1944)

Margarete Dessoff (1874 – 1944)

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

29,80 €

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