19 апр. 2023 г. · It's very heavy reading, but Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann, is about the life of an avant-garde classical composer in early 20th century Germany ...

23 авг. 2022 г. · Harold C. Schonberg "The Lives of the Great Composers" is my favourite book ever about classical composers. Very readable and enjoyable.

2 авг. 2021 г. · The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. One of the must-reads regarding the classical music in the last century.

14 окт. 2023 г. · Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, by Laura Tunbridge, is a great read. A small, concise biography of LvB that focuses on nine landmark pieces.

6 апр. 2023 г. · Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by Elizabeth Wilson. It's like a written documentary. Very neat way to tell an important and riveting story of a ...

6 нояб. 2022 г. · "The Classical Style" by Charles Rosen is the definitive analysis of the music of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, if youre interested in that. " ...

15 окт. 2024 г. · One part of "Cloud Atlas" revolves around a composer who offers his services as a writing assistant to an old, nearly blind, famous composer.

5 нояб. 2022 г. · Anthony Burgess' Mozart and the Wolf Gang isn't properly a novel, but it is a book 'inspired' by Mozart and many other composers who appear in ...

22 июн. 2021 г. · A great historical romance with musical hero is Whispered Music. It also has a beauty and the beast theme, but the hero is a tortured musician.

22 июл. 2024 г. · I'm a former classical musician looking for novels that are about classical musicians or an orchestra and take place in the modern day.