Classical Composers

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    • A Personal Guide
    • By: Anthony Tommasini
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time....

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    • Their Lives and Works
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces - symphonies, concertos, and operatic scores - that changed the direction of classical music and are still celebrated as masterpieces today....

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    • A Life in Nine Pieces
    • By: Laura Tunbridge
    • Narrated by: Laura Tunbridge
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him....

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    • By: Aaron Copland
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring listeners a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms....

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    • Masters of Classical Music
    • By: The History Hour
    • Narrated by: Jerry Beebe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Probably the most naturally gifted musician the world has ever known, Mozart began his career early as a child prodigy. Ludwig van Beethoven is a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music. Learn about them in this audiobook....

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    • By: Darren Henley
    • Narrated by: Marin Alsop
    • Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • This volume again offers an entertaining but informative "life" and numerous musical selections to a further set of six composers....

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    • Authorized and Revised Edition
    • By: Jacky Smith, Jim Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The original edition of this revered and authorized Queen biography explored every aspect of the legendary group’s career from inception to 1992....

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    • By: Darren Henley
    • Narrated by: Marin Alsop
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....

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    • The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
    • By: Charles King
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King comes the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah.

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    • A Life and Times
    • By: Dr. Alan Walker
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Based on 10 years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., this is a landmark biography of the Polish composer by Alan Walker, a leading authority on Fryderyk Chopin and his time....

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    • The Composer and His Work
    • By: Christoph Wolff
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art....

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    • The Music, the Man and How He Became an Icon
    • By: Donald Macleod
    • Narrated by: Donald Macleod
    • Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • He was a revolutionary, an innovator, a disruptor. A man who accomplished incredible success but endured serious personal hardships....

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    • A Child's Guide to Classical Music and Its Great Composers, Volume 1 (The Osvaldo Mouszee Series)
    • By: Stefanie August
    • Narrated by: Jessi Walters
    • Length: 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Let Osvaldo Mouszee guide your children through the life and work of three of the greatest classical composers: Beethoven, Berlioz, and Brahms. The book explains their life and works. Not only that, but you can hear their works included in the recording....

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    • An Improvisation on Indian Music
    • By: Amit Chaudhuri
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world....

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    • Romantic Period 19th Century
    • By: John Sarkett
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 20 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Wonderful compilation" -- Henry Fogel, Dean, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University; former president, Chicago Symphony ...

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    • A Love Story, in Music Lessons
    • By: Jeremy Denk
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Denk
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • In Every Good Boy Does Fine, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. His life is already a little tough as a precocious, temperamental six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey, and then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico....

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    • Classical Period 18th Century
    • By: John Sarkett
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • Focus on more than 40 obscure composers from 18th century Classical Period and 20th century Neoclassical, drawn from Obscure Composers series, ...

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    • A Musical Wayfarer
    • By: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, and provides an insightful biography of the great composer, revealing his complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius....

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    • By: Fred Plotkin
    • Narrated by: Fred Plotkin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-04
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers....

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    • A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening
    • By: John Mauceri
    • Narrated by: John Mauceri
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience? Listen to find out....

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