Music
Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time
Paperback
"A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism." —from the foreword by Peter Schickele
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