Composers category: 3267 books

The private letters to friends and family of one of history's greatest musical minds, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A wonderful look into the personal life of the great composer.Translated into English and with full notes on names and phrases used in the letters.

When five strangers flunked their X Factor audition in 2010, not even music mogul Simon Cowell could have predicted that just two years later they would have a Number One album around the world. Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson had all passed initial auditions for...

Le paganisme contemporain relève d’un tiraillement identitaire face à l’américanisation et à la mondialisation. Dans le metal, contrairement aux clichés, il prend le pas sur l’imaginaire satanique avec le succès du pagan metal. Ce style associe l’archaïsme des instruments traditionnels...

The Juno award-winning Wooden Stars both epitomized and transcended the sound of mid-90s indie rock. One of Canada’s greatest bands, they helped build a scene whose members would go on to be associated with some of the country’s most revered acts including Julie Doiron, Islands and Arcade Fire. With...

**Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. "Profoundly evocative and altogether admirable…The writing and detail are so brilliant that I found the volume revelatory." —Tim Page, Washington Post** Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago’s music scene under...

A woman in the audience once handed Elvis a crown saying, “You’re the King.” “No, honey,” Elvis replied. “There is only one king — Jesus Christ. I’m just a singer.” Gary Tillery presents a coherent view of Elvis’s thoughts through such anecdotes and other recorded facts. We learn,...

Canned Heat's Story of Music Drugs Death Sex and Survival

Eine der besten Biografien des berühmten Musikschriftstellers August Reissmann über das Leben des genialen Komponisten. Inhalt: Vorrede zur dritten Auflage. Erstes Kapitel. Das Haus Mendelssohn. Zweites Kapitel. Die Uebersiedelung nach Berlin. Drittes Kapitel. Mendelssohn's erste Schöpfungen. Viertes...

A vocal group without peer, The Browns were central artists in the changing sound of country and American popular music at mid-century. They were part of major changes in the entertainment business and American culture, participated in the folk music movement in the ‘60’s, and saw the steady birth...

Whitney Houston was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time. Houston was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 200 million records worldwide. She released six studio albums,...

Jimi Hendrix is still widely revered as the most gifted guitarist in the history of rock. His fluency on an electric guitar was breathtaking, and he had a way with words that somehow paralleled his music. Fortunately, Jimi gave many interviews during his short life. Here is what he had to say... I...

Le 27 octobre 2013, le monde du rock est en deuil. Lou Reed, surnommé le « King of New York » par son ami David Bowie, s’est éteint à l’âge de 71 ans. On associe souvent le Velvet Underground et le tube « Walk on the Wild Side » à ce grand musicien et compositeur new-yorkais, mais son...

Barney McKenna, ‘Banjo Barney from Donnycarney’, was one of the founder members of the Dubliners. But he was also famous for another reason: he was capable of bringing any conversation to a sudden stop by uttering something so completely unexpected as to reduce everyone present to bemused silence....

Eine Biografie des berühmten Komponisten und eine der ersten, die jemals verfasst worden sind.