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Jan Swafford
A fascinating celebration of one of classical music’s all-time great composers, and Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the 2014.
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A vivid new biography, toppling the many myths surrounding Mozart, which will undoubtedly be the standard biography for years to come.
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Swafford sets out to reveal the little-known Brahms, the boy who grew up in mercantile Hamburg and played piano in beer halls among prostitutes and drunken sailors, and the fiercely…
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The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.
In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all.
Surveys the history of Western classical music, offers brief profiles of influential composers from Vivaldi to John Cage, and discusses important compositions and periods.
In his lifetime, Charles Ives and his music were denounced and ridiculed, but in this book he emerges as a precocious, well-trained musician, an experimenter, and a brilliant thinker about…
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En Por amor a la musica, el reconocido misicologo y compositor Jan Swafford nos muestra que, a lo largo de los siglos, la musica clasica ha sido cosas muy distintas…
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Swafford portrays a man who had his sorrows like everybody else, but who was a high-spirited, high-living bon vivant fond of games of skill, well-read and thoughtful if also at…
From composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes a definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Jan Swafford's biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers…
Founded in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in America. Presented in full colour with photographs and artefacts, this is a tribute to…
