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  • Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Boundaries of Musical Aesthetics and Creativity

    by Ferruccio Busoni, Fiona Dixon ...
    Translated by Theodore Baker ...
    In "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music," Ferruccio Busoni presents a thought-provoking exploration of the nature and purpose of music in the early 20th century. Employing a distinctive blend of philosophical inquiry and critical analysis, Busoni articulates a vision for an evolving musical aesthetic, one that transcends traditional boundaries and embraces modernity. His innovative approach reflects ... Read more

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  • Complete Etudes for Solo Piano, Series II

    Including the Paganini Etudes and Concert Etudes

    by Franz Liszt ...
    Series series Dover Classical Piano Music
    Liszt's reputation as perhaps the greatest pianist of all time is powerfully supported by his dazzling body of work for solo piano. The undiminished popularity of his etudes with pianists and audiences alike have made them among the most performed and recorded works for solo piano in the romantic repertoire.This superbly produced yet inexpensive two-volume edition presents all of Liszt's etudes as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Complete Etudes for Solo Piano, Series I

    Including the Transcendental Etudes

    by Franz Liszt ...
    Series series Dover Classical Piano Music
    Liszt's reputation as perhaps the greatest pianist of all time is powerfully supported by his dazzling body of work for solo piano. The undiminished popularity of his etudes with pianists and audiences alike have made them among the most performed and recorded works for solo piano in the romantic repertoire.This superbly produced yet inexpensive two-volume edition presents all of Liszt's etudes as ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Complete Elegies, The Six Sonatinas

    and Other Original Works for Solo Piano

    by Ferruccio Busoni ...
    Series series Dover Classical Piano Music
    Like Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) first earned a worldwide reputation as an extraordinary pianist, and only later turned his efforts to composing. Although he is widely known for his virtuoso transcriptions of music by Bach and Liszt, his original piano compositions are today highly regarded for their combination of technical brilliance and innovative ideas.This modestly priced volume ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Notes on Chopin

    by André Gide ...
    Translated by Bernard Frechtman ...
    An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century's most important figures, André GideAndré Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a ... Read more

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  • On Music and Musicians

    by Robert Schumann ...
    Translated by Paul Rosenfeld ...
    Edited by Konraad WolffTranslated by Paul RosenfeldWith twenty black-and-white illustrationsSchumann’s literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones. From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century. The same fire, poetry, directness of expression, the same inventiveness we love in his ... Read more

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  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    by Wassily Kandinsky ...
    Translated by Michael T. H. Sadler ...
    Kandinsky sees the spiritual life of humanity as a pyramid. The artist must lead the layman to the top of this pyramid through the soulful exercise of art. Kandinsky differentiates between the superficial pleasure art inspires and the inner resonance created when art is considered attentively and allowed to touch the soul. The artist is allowed absolute freedom in order to express their soul's art ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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  • A Pianist's A–Z

    A piano lover's reader

    by Alfred Brendel ...
    'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.'Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Notes on the Cinematograph

    by Robert Bresson ...
    Translated by Jonathan Griffin ...
    The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional actors—models, as he called them—and deployed a starkly limited but hypnotic array of sounds and images to produce such classic works as A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, and Lancelot ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Complete Preludes, Nocturnes & Waltzes

    26 Preludes, 21 Nocturnes, 19 Waltzes for Piano

    by Frederic Chopin ...
    (Piano Collection). This new volume in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics presents 26 preludes, 21 nocturnes and 19 waltzes a large amount of music at a value price. There are new urtext editions of seven pieces included, not edited by Joseffy in his original Schirmer editions: Prelude in A-flat Major (1834), Nocturne in C-sharp minor (1830), Nocturne in C minor (1837), and Waltzes in A-flat ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Beethoven

    by Richard Wagner ...
    Translated by William Ashton Ellis ...
    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time. He was particularly instrumental in the transition from the Classic to the Romantic. He was born in Germany but lived from his early twenties in Vienna. There he studied under Haydn and became recognized for his prodigious talents. Though Beethoven declined into deafness from his twenties, ... Read more

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  • Music, Sense and Nonsense

    Collected Essays and Lectures

    by Alfred Brendel ...
    Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having merely one string to his bow, however, Brendel is also one of the world's most remarkable writers on music - possessed of the rare ability ... Read more

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