Music
The Puccini Companion
Paperback
This informative volume offers 27 photographs and drawings, select bibliographies, a chronology of Puccini’s life and works, a dramatis personae of the countless individuals who played a role in Puccini’s career, a list of first performances, and plot summaries of all the operas.
The New Bach Reader
Revised and Expanded
Paperback
"Just reading these documents brings this great composer to life in a most exciting and vivid way. I love this book!" —Yo-Yo Ma
An Autobiography
Paperback
While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book—the composer's first—we hear from the man himself.
Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius
Paperback
"[Glenn Gould] marks a major advance in our understanding of one of the 20th century's most significant performing artists.... Ostwald is as engrossing a writer as any who has tried his hand at biography."—Ted Libbey, Washington Post Book World
Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music
Paperback
A detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music.