Biographies

Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed composers in international musical theater. "Manon Lescaut," "La Bohème," "Tosca," "Madama Butterfly," and "Turandot" are staples of opera reper...

In these songs, we created a kind of sinister fairytale-world-gone-wrong, a feeling of confusion and numbness, represented by a dark place under an impenetrable iron sea. We wrote Under the Iron Sea b...

The Great Music & Musicians series provides a foundation for understanding the major cultural periods, musical styles, and development of music through the ages. The books include art and listening ex...

This book is the first pictorial monograph about the Korean-German composer Isang Yun, who was born in southern Korea in 1917 and died in Berlin in 1995. It was first in Germany, with influence from w...

Im Jahr 1971 verlegte der argentinische Komponist Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) seinen Wohnsitz nach Genf, um mit der ebenfalls aus Argentinien stammenden, in der Schweiz ansässigen Cellistin Aurora N...

Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (1825-1889) is the name of a French musician of the 19th century who was very popular in his day but is today remembered by no-one except brass players, and they rem...

The coronation of a new emperor marks a distinctive moment in history. On 9 October 1790 Leopold II. ascended the throne. This special occasion brought together not only the highest representatives of...

What remains? Peter Gülke distills the richness of his life as a writer, musician, musicologist, and politically minded contemporary into incisive reflections. As a critical witness to an entire centu...

Diese außerhalb Russlands erste Gesamtausgabe des fast vierzehn Jahre umfassenden Briefwechsels P. I. Tschaikowskys mit der von seiner Musik begeisterten Mäzenin (und wohlhabenden Witwe eines baltisch...

Valery Gergiev, seit 1988 Direktor des St. Petersburger Mariinsky-Theaters, dazu seit 2015 Chefdirigent der Münchner Philharmoniker, enthüllt die Abenteuer seines Lebens: Sein Bericht entführt die Les...

In relation to its presence in concert life, Pëtr ?ajkovskij's music has long received little attention in work-analytical research. This volume comprises the contributions of the Tübingen symposium o...

Irvine Arditti, founder and first violinist of the Arditti Quartet, is certainly one of the most sought-after interpreters of new music. In the 50 years of this exceptional quartet's existence, he has...

On March 10, 1928, the celebrated American lyricist Ira Gershwin and his wife Leonore set sail for Europe aboard a luxury ocean liner, accompanied by Ira’s brother George, the esteemed composer of Rha...

The definitive biography of Clyde Stubblefield, over 350 pages, full color with rare photos and note-for-note transcriptions. By Dylan Wissing In November of 1969, James Brown took his band into the s...

Michael Hurd. A major series of titles containing clear and concise accounts of the lives and music of some of the great composers. Written by leading authorities, they give students a background suff...

2015 veröffentlichte Mâkhi Xenakis mit 'Iannis Xenakis, un père bouleversant' ein Buch über ihren berühmten Vater. Sie gibt darin Einblicke in das Lebens des griechisch-französischen Komponisten und l...

For more than half a century Anthony Braxton, born 1945 in Chicago, US, has played a key role in contemporary and avant-garde music as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, music theorist, teacher, mento...

Quellenbezogene geschichtliche Forschung zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts zu ermöglichen un damit die Kenntnis der Neuen Musik zu mehren ist das Ziel der Paul Sacher Stiftung. Ihr Archiv umfasst eine gr...

A versed story about Henryk Wieniawski - a genius Polish violinist and composer. "It's not easy to be a genius! Henry knew that. You can have a sensitive soul, but also ... trouble." A brilliant biogr...