Classical Music Biography

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    • A Personal Guide
    • By: Anthony Tommasini
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time....

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    • The Composer and His Work
    • By: Christoph Wolff
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art....

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    • A Life in Nine Pieces
    • By: Laura Tunbridge
    • Narrated by: Laura Tunbridge
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him....

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    • The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
    • By: John Mauceri
    • Narrated by: John Mauceri
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • An exuberant, uniquely accessible look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century....

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    • The Music, the Man and How He Became an Icon
    • By: Donald Macleod
    • Narrated by: Donald Macleod
    • Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • He was a revolutionary, an innovator, a disruptor. A man who accomplished incredible success but endured serious personal hardships....

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    • Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
    • By: Blair Tindall
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • Mozart in the Jungle delves into the lives of the musicians and conductors who inhabit the insular world of classical music....

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    • The Relentless Revolutionary
    • By: John Clubbe
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven's political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions....

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    • By: Darren Henley
    • Narrated by: Marin Alsop
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....

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    • A Memoir of Bach and Mourning
    • By: Philip Kennicott
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic reflects on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork....

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    • By: Richard Fawkes
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music....

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    • By: Michael Lydon
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In Good Old Grateful Dead, Michael Lydon follows the band in its attempt to continue to foster the communal, collaborative spirit that brought it to fame while resisting fame's price....

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    • An Improvisation on Indian Music
    • By: Amit Chaudhuri
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world....

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    • Journey and the Story of American Rock
    • By: David Hamilton Golland, Joel Selvin - foreword
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Since exploding on the scene in the late 1970s, Journey has inspired generations of fans with hit after hit. But hidden under this rock 'n' roll glory is a complex story of ambition, larger-than-life personalities, and clashes.

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    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Peter Forbes
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From Mozart to Mendelssohn, this comprehensive guide to classical music history and classical music biography is the perfect latest addition to the best-selling Big Ideas series....

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    • A Love Story, in Music Lessons
    • By: Jeremy Denk
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Denk
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • In Every Good Boy Does Fine, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. His life is already a little tough as a precocious, temperamental six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey, and then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico....

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    • Musings from the Road
    • By: Willie Nelson, Kinky Friedman
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his journey....

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    • Why He Matters
    • By: Harvey Sachs
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Arnold Schoenberg from notoriety, Schoenberg restores him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers....

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