Music
Days with the Great Composers
Days with the Great Composers invites listeners to step into the lives of some of history's most celebrated composers through a series of im…
How to Sing
Lilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, was a German operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility. She was also a voice teacher.She wrote…
The World's Great Men of Music
These stories are gathered from many sources including biographies, letters, journals and musical history. The life story of 25 of the most …
Selected Aphorisms
A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefi…
The Perfect Wagnerite
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagne…
The Life of Mozart
The Life of Mozart by Otto Jahn offers a comprehensive exploration of the life and legacy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of history's most …
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself co…
The Art of Music
Volume 1 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the "Pre-Clas…
Stories From The Operas
"Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of "Stories from the Operas," it has been decided to re…
Music Notation and Terminology
Until relatively recently, music students at all levels of study—from the conservatories to public schools—had few resources available for t…
Ludwig Van Beethoven
The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies... I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symph…
Schubert And His Works
This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating…
The Les Paul Show
In 1950, Paul began hosting a 15-minute radio program, titled The Les Paul Show, for NBC Radio. The program featured his trio, which include…
How to Listen to Music
This book is "not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art". It gives broad instruction on composers…
Piano and Song
Piano and Song by Friedrich Wieck offers a unique blend of conversation and instruction, making it an engaging resource for anyone intereste…
The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven
The first of three volumes of the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. Covers the years 1770-1802. - Summary by Zain Solinski
The Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show
The Bing Crosby - Rosemary Clooney Show was a delightful radio program that aired on CBS starting February 29, 1960. Aimed at female listene…
Music
"So many books are written for beginners on the appreciation of music that I can be thankful that advancing age makes it unnecessary fo…
Joseph Haydn
Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked e…
Benjamin Britten
Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than thos…