Category Archives: Composers & Musicians

Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives)

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a composer of universal genius whose popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow and now encircles the globe. His most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in … Continue reading →

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The Romantic World of Puccini: A New Critical Appraisal of the Operas

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the world’s most popular operas, including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, was also a highly literary person who based his librettos on existing works of literature. This work explores that literary inheritance in … Continue reading →

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Schoenberg (Master Musicians Series)

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

In this completely rewritten and updated edition of his long-indispensable study, Malcolm MacDonald takes advantage of 30 years of recent scholarship, new biographical information, and deeper understanding of Schoenberg’s aims and significance to produce a superb guide to Schoenberg’s life … Continue reading →

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The Words and Music of Tom Waits (The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by singleton

Tom Waits’s distinctive, bourbon-soaked growl, his unique persona, and his incorporation of musical styles from blues to experimental to vaudeville have secured for him a top-shelf cult following and an extraordinary critical respect. The idea of the Wanderer – someone … Continue reading →

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Dusty!: Queen of the Postmods

Posted on February 25, 2008 by singleton

Born Mary O’Brien to a middle-class British family, Dusty Springfield would go on to a career that spanned England and the U.S. as a pop and soul singer, eventually earning the title of “white queen of soul.” Music scholar Randall … Continue reading →

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Richard Wagner for the New Millennium: Essays in Music and Culture (Studies in European Culture and History)

Posted on February 26, 2007 by singleton

This is the first truly interdisciplinary collection devoted to the legacy of Richard Wagner to merge insights from Musicology and Music Theory with explorations of the composer’s vast socio-cultural impact from such fields as History, German, and Disability Studies. The … Continue reading →

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Rossini (Master Musicians Series)

Posted on February 26, 2007 by singleton

Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39 operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which … Continue reading →

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Barbra: The Way She Is

Posted on February 25, 2007 by singleton

New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen taps into important sources—eyewitnesses to Barbra Streisand’s remarkable life and career—to paint a startling portrait of the artist…and the woman. Whether you love her, hate her, or are simply spellbound by her titanic … Continue reading →

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The Words and Music of Paul Simon (The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection)

Posted on February 25, 2007 by singleton

Paul Simon is commonly acknowledged to be one of the most successful singer-songwriters of the pop-rock era. His work has flourished in the context of Simon and Garfunkel as well as in his own solo career. Starting with the folk-rock … Continue reading →

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Mozart (Master Musicians Series)

Posted on February 26, 2006 by singleton

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy–he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills–he wrote as an adult some of the … Continue reading →

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