Product Description: Founded in 1815, the Handel & Haydn Society is by far the oldest musical organization in America. From its Boston and New England roots in singing schools and societies through the formative days of the early nineteenth century, when the Society's primary models were Handel (the classical forefather) and Haydn (the innovator), it has been a mainstay of music in America...read more

Product Description: Written in the style of a true Victorian melodrama: sex, suicide, madness, betrayal and triumph, Jan Swafford's biography not only reveals Brahms as a man of appalling and brilliant contradictions, but opens a window on an era of cultural absoluteness, an era when music mattered to everyone...read more

A new biography of the great composer reveals an intensely private man who emerged from mercantile Hamburg, where he once played piano for raucous crowds of prostitutes and drunken sailors, to be proclaimed the new messiah of Romanticism by Robert Schumann. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

A biography of the American composer examines how his music was shaped by his Yankee background, the influence of his father, and his Yale education

Product Description: Features chronologically arranged essays on composers that combine biography with analyses of the major works, explanations of such terms as polyphony and atonality, a glossary of musical terms and an appendix to help build a classical musical history.

Surveys the history of Western classical music, offers brief profiles of influential composers from Vivaldi to John Cage, and discusses important compositions and periods