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    Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

    Norman Lebrecht

    A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them

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    Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

    Norman Lebrecht

    Beethoven’s life and legacy in 100 recordings

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    Why Beethoven

    Norman Lebrecht

    Beethoven's life and legacy in 100 recordings

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    Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness: The Secret Life and Shameful Death of the Classical Record Industry

    Norman Lebrecht

    Exposes the strange truth and sheer brilliance behind the classical music recording industry. This book charts its rise since Caruso’s first gramophone bestseller of 1902 and predicts the industry’s imminent…

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    The Song of Names

    Norman Lebrecht

    The close friendship between Martin Simmonds and violin prodigy Dovidl Rappoport, two Jewish boys living in London between the 1930s and the end of World War II, is threatened by…

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    The Companion to 20th-Century Music

    Norman Lebrecht

    This work comprehensively describes and celebrates the variety and innovation of 20th-century music, assessing composers and musicians according to artistic merit rather than ideological or institutional eminence.

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    The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

    Norman Lebrecht

    Filled with memorable incidents and unforgettable personalities, this is at once the captivating story of the life and death of classical recording and an opinionated, insider’s guide to appreciating the…

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    The Game of Opposites

    Norman Lebrecht

    From the author of the award-winning The Song of Names comes a powerful new work that explores the reverberations of both love and hate in the story of one man’s…

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    Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

    Norman Lebrecht

    This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is [a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies…

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    Why Beethoven

    Norman Lebrecht

    Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. By examining one hundred of his compositions, a portrait emerges of the man behind the music. Lebrecht has immersed himself in…

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    Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World

    Norman Lebrecht

    A fascinating celebration of one of the most important classical composers, and one of the most enduringly popular, now in papberback.

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    Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

    Norman Lebrecht

    Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2010 –Title page verso.

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    Book of Musical Anecdotes

    Norman Lebtecht,Norman Lebrecht

    Here is one of the most enjoyable and illuminating books ever published for the music lover, a feast of delightful anecdotes that reveal the all-too-human side of the great composers…

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    The Song of Names Lib/E

    Norman Lebrecht

    Martin Simmond’s father tells him, Never trust a musician when he speaks about love. The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy…

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    The Song of Names

    Norman Lebrecht

    Two boys are growing up in wartime London. Withdrawn scholarly Martin and Dovidl, a Polish refugee with a genius for the violin and for mischief and menace. Together they have…

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    The Song of Names

    Norman Lebrecht

    Two boys are growing up in wartime London. Withdrawn scholarly Martin and Dovidl, a Polish refugee with a genius for the violin and for mischief and menace. Together they have…

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    Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

    Norman Lebrecht

    A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world–and it changed them.In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the…

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