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# **Takashi Asahina (1908–2001): Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Life of Absolute Musical Integrity ** Takashi Asahina was not a man of public charm, wit, or theatrical gesture. His life offers no flamboyant scandals…

# **Takashi Asahina (1908–2001): A Life in 20 Chapters ** Takashi Asahina stands as **the patriarch of Japanese symphonic conducting** and one of the most uncompromising interpreters of the Austro-German tradition of the 20th…

# **Schumann – Eric Frederick Jensen ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/schumann-eric-frederick-jensen/](https://classicalarchive.org/schumann-eric-frederick-jensen/)** ** **Bibliographical details** * **Author:** Eric Frederick Jensen * **Publisher:** Oxford University Press * **First publication:** **2001** * **Series:** Oxford Master Musicians *…

# **Musicians & Composers of the 20Th Century – Editor: Alfred W. Cramer, Pomona College – 5 Volumes – 1800 Pages ** **Complete Collection: ** [[https://classicalarchive.org/musicians-composers-of-the-20th-century-editor-alfred-w-cramer-pomona-college-5-volumes-1800-pages/](https://classicalarchive.org/musicians-composers-of-the-20th-century-editor-alfred-w-cramer-pomona-college-5-volumes-1800-pages/)](https://classicalarchive.org/musicians-composers-of-the-20th-century-editor-alfred-w-cramer-pomona-college-5-volumes-1800-pages/) **Biographical and critical essays on the men and…

# **Leonard Bernstein (Phaidon Music Art Ebook) ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/leonard-bernstein-phaidon-music-art-ebook/](https://classicalarchive.org/leonard-bernstein-phaidon-music-art-ebook/) ## **Leonard Bernstein** **Bibliographical details** * **Author:** Paul Myers * **Title:** *Leonard Bernstein* * **Series:** *Phaidon 20th-Century Composers* * **Publisher:** Phaidon Press…

# **Johannes Brahms by Heather Platt** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/johannes-brahms-by-heather-platt/](https://classicalarchive.org/johannes-brahms-by-heather-platt/) **Bibliographical details** * **Author:** Heather Platt * **Publisher:** Routledge * **First publication:** **2012** * **Series:** Routledge Composer Biographies * **Length:** approximately **240–260 pages**, depending…

# **DIVERTIMENTO, CASSATION, SERENADE - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** Mozart was born into an age when **the sharp boundaries** that later (by around **1800**) separated **chamber from symphonic**, **theatrical…

# **The Life of Handel by Victor Schoelcher – Cambridge Library Collection** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/the-life-of-handel-by-victor-victor-schoelcher-cambridge-library-collection/](https://classicalarchive.org/the-life-of-handel-by-victor-victor-schoelcher-cambridge-library-collection/) ## **The Life of Handel** *(Cambridge Library Collection)* **Bibliographical details** * **Full title:** *The Life of Handel* *…

# **J.S Bach – A Life in Music – Peter Williams ** **Complete Book: ** [[https://classicalarchive.org/j-s-bach-a-life-in-music-peter-williams/](https://classicalarchive.org/j-s-bach-a-life-in-music-peter-williams/)](https://classicalarchive.org/j-s-bach-a-life-in-music-peter-williams/) **Bibliographical details** * **Author:** Peter Williams * **Publisher:** Cambridge University Press * **First edition (hardcover):** **2007** * **Later…

# **Gustav Mahler, by Jens Malte Fischer ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/gustav-mahler-by-jens-malte-fischer/](https://classicalarchive.org/gustav-mahler-by-jens-malte-fischer/)** ** ***Gustav Mahler*** by **Jens Malte Fischer** is regarded as **one of the most intellectually rigorous, psychologically perceptive, and historically grounded biographies**…

# **Great Italian and French Composers, by George T.Ferris ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/great-italian-and-french-composers-by-george-t-ferris/](https://classicalarchive.org/great-italian-and-french-composers-by-george-t-ferris/) ***Great Italian and French Composers*** is a **19th-century biographical and critical survey** written by the American music historian **George T.…

# **Antonio Vivaldi The Red Priest of Venice, by Karl Heller ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/antonio-vivaldi-the-red-priest-of-venice-by-karl-heller/](https://classicalarchive.org/antonio-vivaldi-the-red-priest-of-venice-by-karl-heller/)** ** ***Antonio Vivaldi: The Red Priest of Venice*** by **Karl Heller** is a **concise but authoritative scholarly biography**…

# **Alban Berg and His World, Edited by Christopher Hailey ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/alban-berg-and-his-world-edited-by-christopher-hailey/](https://classicalarchive.org/alban-berg-and-his-world-edited-by-christopher-hailey/)** ** ***Alban Berg and His World*** is a **major scholarly essay collection** devoted to **Alban Berg**, published as part…

# **Handel by Stanley Sadie ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/handel-by-stanley-sadie/](https://classicalarchive.org/handel-by-stanley-sadie/) **Handel by Stanley Sadie** **Stanley Sadie’s *****Handel*** is one of the **most authoritative modern scholarly accounts** of the life and music of **George Frideric…

# **J.S.Bach - Late Years and Legacy — Obscurity, Blindness, and the Afterlife of Genius** The final years of **Johann Sebastian Bach** form one of the most poignant paradoxes in music history: a life…

# **Verdi: Man and Musician – His Biography by Frederick James Crowest** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/verdi-man-and-musician-his-biography-by-frederick-james-crowest/](https://classicalarchive.org/verdi-man-and-musician-his-biography-by-frederick-james-crowest/) Frederick James Crowest’s *Verdi: Man and Musician* is one of the **earliest English-language biographies of Giuseppe Verdi**, first…

# **CHAMBER MUSIC FOR STRING INSTRUMENTS (2) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** **The Viennese Shock of 1773: K. 168–173 and the Encounter with Haydn** Judging by numbering and chronology,…

# **CHAMBER MUSIC FOR STRING INSTRUMENTS (1) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** **When Mozart Wrote His First String Quartet** When Mozart composed his first string “quartet” (K. 80)—during his…

# **UNIVERSALITY - (Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) In one of his letters to his father (7 February 1778), Mozart writes that, as Leopold well knew, he—Wolfgang—was able *“to adopt…

# **Archipel Digital Remastered 2 ** **ARPCD0246** Vladimir Horowitz – The London recordings 1932–1936 **ARPCD0247** **Donizetti** – *Lucia di Lammermoor* – **Fausto Cleva** **ARPCD0248** Sviatoslav Richter plays **Ravel** & **Rachmaninov** **ARPCD0251** **Bach** – *Die…

# **Music for St.Cecilia’s Day (From Purcell to Handel) – Bryan White ** **Complete Book (Free Download): ** [https://classicalarchive.org/music-for-st-cecilias-day-from-purcell-to-handel-bryan-white/](https://classicalarchive.org/music-for-st-cecilias-day-from-purcell-to-handel-bryan-white/)** ** **1. The Subject and Its Importance** *Music for St Cecilia’s Day (From Purcell to…

# **Mahler’s Symphonic Sonatas – Seth Monahan - **(Oxford Studies in Music Theory) **Complete Book (Free Download):** [[https://classicalarchive.org/mahlers-symphonic-sonatas-seth-monahan/](https://classicalarchive.org/mahlers-symphonic-sonatas-seth-monahan/)](https://classicalarchive.org/mahlers-symphonic-sonatas-seth-monahan/) **1. What This Study Is — and What It Is Not** *Mahler’s Symphonic Sonatas* is a…

# **Schubert and His Work by Herbert F. Peyser ** **Free Download: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/schubert-and-his-work-by-herbert-f-peyser/](https://classicalarchive.org/schubert-and-his-work-by-herbert-f-peyser/)** ** ## **Schubert and His Work** by **Herbert F. Peyser** **1. The Book and Its Place in Schubert Literature** *Schubert…

# **Johann Sebastian Bach - The Organist and His Works for the Organ - Andre Pirro ** **Free Download: ** [[https://classicalarchive.org/johann-sebastian-bach-the-organist-and-his-works-for-the-organ-andre-pirro/](https://classicalarchive.org/johann-sebastian-bach-the-organist-and-his-works-for-the-organ-andre-pirro/)](https://classicalarchive.org/johann-sebastian-bach-the-organist-and-his-works-for-the-organ-andre-pirro/) ## **Johann Sebastian Bach – *****The Organist and His Works for the Organ***…