This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer’s life.

This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer’s life.

Book Description A fascinating celebration of one of the most important classical composers, and one of the most enduringly popular. Product Description A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, his music offers more than the usual listening satisfactions. Many believe it has the power to ...(展开全部)

Product Description Norman Lebrecht—noted music critic, novelist, and author of the classic Mahler Remembered—explains why Gustav Mahler, relatively obscure in his own time, has become the most popular symphonist of ours. Although he was well regarded as a conductor, when Gustav Mahler died in 1911 his compositions were considered “incomprehensible” and “unlistenable.” In the 1...(展开全部)

诺曼·莱布雷希特（Norman Lebrecht）， 当今最受欢迎的音乐、文化领域评论家之一，拥有广泛的读者群，其专栏被翻译成包括中文在内的多种语言在全世界传播。莱布雷希特还是BBC 第三古典频道、彭博资讯集团（Bloomberg）及纽约 WNYC 广播电台的常客，贡献了大量有价值的节目。迄今为止，莱布雷希特在音乐方面的著作共有十二部，其中不乏具有持久影响力的作品，如《大师的神话》（MaestroMyth，1991 年）和《大师，杰作与疯狂》（Maestro,Masterpiece and Madness，2007 年） 就曾引发人们长久的思考与讨论。莱布雷希特在小说领域亦有建树， 曾以《名字之歌》（The Song ofNames）一举夺得 2002 年英国“惠特布莱德奖”（Whitbread Prize）。

Product Description Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through the composer's character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. A classic in German from 1960, MAHLER is presented here in a translation that captures the stylistic brilliance of the or...(展开全部)

Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them—a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read style by distinguished social historian Charles Tilly, the book explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, repair, rework, or terminate relatio...(展开全部)

"Why?" is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them - a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read style by distinguished social historian Charles Tilly, the book explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, repair, rework, or terminate rel...(展开全部)

A frog sits peacefully in a meadow. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, he is attacked by an umbrella-wielding mouse in a confrontation that quickly turns into a full-scale war.