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Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact, as well as providing food for endless thought and discussion, Wagner has had an influence on many fields outside music. In this lively pocket guide, Michael Tanner gives concise accounts of all his operas - the likes of Parsifal, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde - showing how important it is to grasp the dramatic situations at every point, and indicating some of the key musical features. He also provides an outline of Wagners astonishing life, and shows that he has often been unfairly criticised and made a scapegoat, especially for political events which took place long after his death.Key features include:- Wagner: his life year by year - Wagner: his music work by work - Things people said about Wagner - Essential Wagner: ten great moments - Wagner on CD and DVD - Wagner bibliographyThis indispensable Faber Pocket Guide provides a wealth of insights into Wagner and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in both and the man and his music. [P]robably the best introduction ever written to this most complex of composers. Simon Heffer, Telegraph

Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously misunderstood. This engaging new Pocket Guide assesses what Haydns music means to us today, and challenges some of the myths that have grown up around the composer. With suggestions for further reading and recommended CD recordings, Richard Wigmores crisp and concise guide presents you with all you need to listen to and enjoy Haydns music. It explores each of his key works, from his symphonies to his quartets, from his choral works to his sonatas, and invites a new generation of listeners to discover the depth and dazzling ingenuity of this most humane and life-affirming of composers.

John Bridcut, author of the acclaimed Brittens Children, will include significant fresh material which will make the book indispensable for Britten aficionados as well as for those who are discovering the composers music for the first time. This guide is all about finding a way into Brittens music. An outline of planned chapters: - The Top Ten Britten pieces - Critics First Impressions - Brittens Life - Britten and Pears - The things they said - The Music (stage works, choral works, songs, chamber music, orchestral works) - The Interpreters of Brittens work - Britten as Performer - The Impresario (English Opera Group and Aldeburgh Festival) - Brittens Homes - Trivial Pursuits

The music of J.S.Bach has a unique power and attraction some 300 years after it was written. From annual performances of the great Passions and BBC Radio 3s hugely successful Bach Christmas, to its use in adverts, films and popular arrangements, the imaginative strength of Bachs music continues to draw listeners to explore its mysteries.This new Pocket Guide looks at all Bachs music, sacred and secular, and explores why he speaks so profoundly to our age about both the spiritual and the sensual in life.Among the features of this easy-to-use book: The Bach Top Ten Bach: The music work by work Performing Bach today Bach: The life year by year What people said about Bach Accessible and easy to use, Nicholas Kenyon provides for the first time an up-to-date survey of all Bachs major works in the light of the latest research, from Masses to Cantatas, Concertos to Suites, and recommends the best CDs and further reading.

Its been a long time coming... Llega a librerías el libro para conocerlo todo sobre la artista que ha redefinido la industria musical.Desde componer canciones en la granja de Pensilvania de sus padres a romper sus propios records dentro de la industria musical: el impacto mundial de Taylor Swift es innegable.A traves de este magnifico libro ilustrado, seas un swiftie veterano o un fan que acaba de llegar, podras sumergirte en el universo lirico y compositivo de la mayor artista de su generacion.Recorre las diversas eras de la cantante y descubre como sus distintas inquietudes han evolucionado a lo largo de su carrera. Una experiencia unica para interpretar todo aquello que las letras de Taylor inspiran, y llegar a los recovecos mas ocultos de la autentica mastermind de la musica.

Elvis Presley was an extremely talented musician and a very charismatic man. His colourful persona, private life and often unique personality means he still fascinates people today, years after his death in 1977.This book contains a selection of interesting facts and anecdotes about Elviss life and career. Hopefully most of them will be new to the reader!

The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done before. The intensely personal dramas of his earlier symphonies were a thing of the past - or rather, they were now to be seen as preludes to this new, culminating symphonic statement: he was quite sure it was the greatest thing he had ever written. The first seven symphonies were all, in their very different ways, acts of private confession, the unburdening of a hypersensitive soul, struggling to make sense of its own existence and of the thrilling and terrifying world in which it found itself. The Eighth would speak in different tones, and of a different kind of experience. It would be a bringer of joy through inspired settings of the hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus and the final scene of Goethes Faust. The world premiere in Munich in the summer of 1910 was the artistic breakthrough for which the composer had yearned all his adult life, filling Munichs huge Neue Musik-Festhalle on two successive evenings, to tumultuous applause. Stephen Johnson recounts its far-reaching effect on composers, conductors and writers of the time - Berg and Schoenberg and the teenage Korngold, Bruno Walter and Klemperer, and the writers Stefan Zweig and Thomas Mann (the character of Gustav von Aschenbach in Manns Death in Venice was partly based on the impression Mahler made on him in 1910). Placing Mahler within his world - in particular the German-speaking world - Johnson re-assesses Mahlers thoughts in the context of the prevailing thought of his age, not only in relation to the artistic and intellectual movements of the time, but through consideration of political climate and historical background, and on into science, medicine, technology, mass entertainment, and even the development of modern PR. Throughout we are made aware that in that same tumultuous summer Mahler worked desperately on his Tenth Symphony, was betrayed by his wife, and consulted Sigmund Freud. It is a story like no other.

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf gathers together for the first time every poem Wolf set to music. Alongside the original German texts are translations by leading Lieder expert Richard Stokes, who also provides illuminating commentary. The 36 poets set by Wolf are each given their own chapter: a brief essay on the poet is followed by a note on Wolfs connection with the writer, extracts from letters that throw light on the Songs and convey his mood at the time of composition, and the texts and translations. Short biographies of all Wolfs correspondents flesh out the extraordinary life of this genius. This will be an indispensable volume for all lovers of Lieder.

All the singles, all the albums, all the tours, all the TV specials and movies... all the ABBA! For four decades ABBA - the combined talents of Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad - has been a global music phenomenon, clocking up record sales of over 360 million. Unquestionably one of the most respected and recognisable brands in pop, Scandinavias all-conquering musical export actually remained together for only ten years but the groups influence resonates as much today as it did in the 1970s. Thanks to the global success of the musical Mamma Mia!, ABBAs hit songs are cherished by millions of new admirers, but it is the original recordings which set the bench-mark for 20th century pop. The beautiful, cascading melodies and unmistakable harmonies of Dancing Queen, SOS, Take a Chance on Me and The Winner Takes It All have a unique power to inspire passion and devotion in equal measure. For the very first time The Complete ABBA compiles all of the Swedish supergroups singles, albums, TV specials, tours and movies. Beginning with their 1972 debut single People Need Love, the book chronicles the bands incredible story right through to Bjorn and Bennys triumphant Thank You for the Music tribute concert held in London in 2009, and beyond, to 2012, the bands 40th anniversary. This is all the ABBA youll ever need!

Almost as miraculous as the songs it exists to celebrate. PETE PAPHIDESThe only ABBA book that the world will ever need. TONY PARSONSWriting perfection on musical perfection: book heaven. CAITLIN MORAN Through exclusive interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secrets to ABBAs success.More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still make people the world over dance and sing their hearts out. After interviewing the four members for an article in 2013 - at which time the band had not been interviewed for over thirty years - Jan Gradvall was granted unique access to them for the next decade. In The Book of ABBA, the band share their thoughts and opinions more openly than ever before, while Jan reveals the context in which their sound developed - and shows how the story of ABBA is also the story of Sweden and the globalisation of pop culture.From their chart-topping ABBA Voyage - their first album in forty years - to the two-million-ticket-selling concert-experience of the same name, it is undeniable that, in the history of pop culture and music, there has never been a group like ABBA. With remarkable intimacy, Gradvalls book brings readers closer than ever to one of the worlds most notoriously private music icons.

Los Beatles son un concepto que parece ser capaz de trascenderlo todo. Pero su obra estética nace situada: se produjo en un tiempo y en unos espacios determinados que la condicionaron y la hicieron posible. De esta idea parte el semiologo Bernardo Suarez para analizar en esta obra el fenomeno artistico que Los Beatles representan en el marco de la sociedad de su epoca. Explora los contextos global, local e individuales que atravesaron la produccion de su musica y postula la existencia de dos periodos diferenciados, llamados configuraciones, que signan el porvenir de la carrera de la banda.

ANO 4, 1961 - A ERA DO ROCKOs Big Beat Boppin Beatles (janeiro a março de 1961)Eles no eram a primeira banda de Liverpool a voltar de Hamburgo. Derry and the Seniors vieram antes, mas sem fazer um sucesso estrondoso. Ja o retorno dos Beatles foi algo bem diferente: foi to explosivo localmente quanto a chegada do proprio rock n roll, em 1956. Ninguem esperava aquilo, ninguem sabia quem eles eram ou de onde vinham. E, de repente, estavam ali, incrivelmente bons, to primorosos que tudo começou a mudar por causa deles, e com rapidez.

ESQUEÇA TUDO QUE VOCÊ LEU, VIU E OUVIU SOBRE OS BEATLES.Mark Lewisohn o maior historiador de Beatles do mundo pressiona o botão ATUALIZAR para relatar toda a história como nunca foi contada ou conhec

ESQUEÇA TUDO QUE VOCÊ LEU, VIU E OUVIU SOBRE OS BEATLES.Mark Lewisohn - o maior historiador de Beatles do mundo - pressiona o botão ATUALIZAR para relatar toda a história como nunca foi contada ou co

Michael Jackson died on June 25 2009 in Los Angeles, from of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication (according to Wikipedia). The one-time King of Pop was preparing for one last assault on the mainstream with a proposed 50 night run of shows at the 02 (thereby trumping his arch-rival, Prince, who had just concluded his legendary 21 Nights). His exhaustion, paranoia and general ill-heath were an open secret. He had lived many lives and inhabited many bodies; PT Barnum, Fred Astaire, and Peter Pan in one mortal coil. His death was mourned by hundreds of millions of fans but it was almost as if he had been dead for some time already. And in his death, in vivid technicolor, we relived the dreams, nightmares, fantasies, and perversions that we had all projected on to him for four decades. Paul Morleys short biographical portrait of Michael Jackson looks at how we turned the most outrageous child star talent of the late 20th century into a monster; how his decline soundtracked the end of Pop and the end of American Imperialism; how his once staggeringly modern and funky music became secondary to the dysfunctional freak show of watching a vulnerable man literally disintegrate. Tender, erudite, and provocative, Morleys monograph documents a tragedy that is so Shakespearean in scale that it obscures the legacy of the last of the great Song and Dance Men.

Un honesto relato en primera persona sobre los límites del éxito y el fracaso, del amor y el odio a uno mismo.Una historia de amor, música, ansiedad, sueños y locura.Volvió otra vez la primavera y yo volvi a sacar del bolso un cuaderno. Pero no era el cuaderno de las canciones. Era este cuaderno que tienes entre las manos.Al principio estaba asustada, no te voy a engañar, pero esta vez me sentia mas tranquila. Sonreia con los ojos llenos de polvo de estrellas... Espera, espera... ¿te has perdido? No te preocupes, te explico rapido: en 2002 entre en Operacion Triunfo, pero me expulsaron la primera. Me converti en la perdedora mas famosa de España. Tres años despues, forme el grupo Nena Daconte. No era la primera vez que tenia un grupo, pero en esta ocasion dimos en la diana. Nos ficho Universal y llego el exito arrollador. En que estrella estara sonaba grande y con derecho propio. Premios, giras, todas las puertas abiertas... Pero en aquella epoca fumaba porros y empece a abusar del alcohol. Comenzo una etapa de autodestruccion que termino en mi primer brote psicotico. Un año despues, con la cancion Tenia tanto que darte el exito fue imparable, demoledor. Continuaron las paranoias, la ansiedad y el miedo. Dificil combinacion. Todo era malo en mi cabeza. El triunfo me sentaba fatal, la culpa me comia por dentro y destruia todo lo que viniera de mi. Hicimos mas de doscientos conciertos en un año. Mi salud mental empeoro. Desde entonces, tuve varios diagnosticos psiquiatricos diferentes: depresion psicotica, trastorno bipolar de la personalidad, ansiedad... Un medico me dijo una vez que con los años se iria agravando. Y asi fue. De todas las relaciones toxicas que tenia, la peor de todas era con la musica, asi que lo deje. Abandone. Desapareci. Hui. Al menos hasta hoy, cuando volvi a sacar del bolso este cuaderno... He hecho un largo viaje hasta llegar aqui.¿Quieres saber como fue?Reseñas: Con Mai es facil ponerse de su lado, es la ganadora y la perdedora. Eso la convierte en especial porque de ahi solo puede salir una conquista personal. Y asi es ella en este libro. Maxim HuertaA raiz de que Nena Daconte publicase su libro mucha gente me pedia que hablara con ella. No lo entendia, nunca la habia relacionado con la salud mental. Angel MartinHay que ser muy valiente para abrirse en canal y explicar en publico lo que cuenta Nena Daconte. Un testimonio desgarrador y mas que nunca necesario, en estos tiempos en los que ocultamos nuestro dolor tras los filtros de las aplicaciones. Carme ChaparroUn libro muy interesante. Cuenta con muchisima naturalidad cosas como su relacion con el alcohol. Mai Meneses es una mujer con exito, reconocida, con premios que sin embargo ha sentido que no merecia lo que le estaba pasando. Jorge Javier VazquezTestimonios como estos son los que estan ayudando a sacar de la cueva la realidad de las enfermedades mentales. Carles FrancinoSincera cronica de su exito musical y caida en el pozo de la enfermedad mental. Victor Amela

Un luminoso memoir de la autora de Éramos unos niños, ganadora del National Book Award«Glorioso.» NPR «Único y feroz.» Salon «Increíblemente hermoso.» The New York Magazine «A los fans de su música n

Welcome to The Independents new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music. Extracted from Michael Steens book The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, these concise guides, selected by The Independents editorial team, explore the lives of composers as diverse as Mozart and Puccini, reaching from Bach to Brahms, set against the social, historical and political forces which affected them, to give a rounded portrait of what it was like to be alive and working as a musician at that time. Unlike many of the composers in this series, Tchaikovsky showed no indication of genius as a child and he spent several years as a clerk in the Ministry of Justice before entering the St Petersburg Conservatoire. His composing career only really took off in his mid-30s. Late starter he may have been but, in the nearly twenty years left to him (he died at 53), he created some of the undisputed masterpieces of the repertoire: the operas, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, and in ballet, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. The Fourth Symphony, with its fate motif, and the Sixth Symphony, the Pathetique, along with his First Piano Concerto, make constant appearances on the concert platform. Behind these achievements, as Michael Steens gripping narrative shows, lay a life of anguish and sexual crisis as Tchaikovsky tried alternatively to accommodate and repress his homosexuality (then punishable by death in Russia). It led him to make a disastrous marriage at 37, which caused him much distress, and after only a few months, they arranged to live apart. In many ways his most successful relationship with a woman as an adult was with his patroness Nadezhda von Meck, which lasted fourteen years, during which time they never spoke to each other in person. Even today, the true cause of his death remains open to question, with competing theories jostling for acceptance.

O livro que todo Swiftie precisa ler, Taylor Swift: A história completa conta a ascensão meteórica da estrela do pop que está dominando o mundo! Taylor Swift foi de jovem talentosa de uma cidade pequ

De una niña que escribía canciones en su habitación de Wyomissing a una de las voces más influyentes del siglo XXI, Taylor Swift ha tejido su vida entre melodías, palabras y reinvenciones. Este libro recorre su viaje artistico y personal como una narrativa de autodescubrimiento, poder y resistencia femenina.Desde los primeros acordes country en Nashville hasta la arquitectura emocional de Folklore, Evermore y Midnights, cada capitulo revela a una creadora que ha hecho de su vulnerabilidad una forma de fuerza y de su musica un espejo generacional.A traves de sus discos, sus batallas por los derechos de autor, sus rupturas, sus premios y sus silencios, se traza la evolucion de una artista que convirtio la industria en escenario y la intimidad en revolucion.Taylor Swift, la voz de una generacion no es solo una biografia: es el retrato de una mujer que transformo el dolor en arte, la exposicion en poder y el pop en una forma de literatura emocional.