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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: small tear on rear panel, worn edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few documents in the history of classical music offer as...

The first comprehensive biography of one of the most significant--and most popular--composers of the 20th century. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

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One of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was also a prolific and gifted writer. Besides producing diaries, short stories, dramas, reviews, and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA compelling work of musical biography and Soviet cultural history, Sergei Prokofiev: A Soviet...

This is one title in a series of short, illustrated biographies. They tell the stories of those who have shaped our present and our past, from Beethoven to Dietrich, from...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback edition in good condition. Page Condition: Good, slight yellowing. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Sergei Prokofiev stands as one of...

Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, his diaries were...

THERE IS NO better way to introduce children to classical music than with Prokofiev's musical fairy tale of the little boy (played by all the strings of the orchestra) who,...

When Stalin came to power, making music in Russia became dangerous. Composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for potential...

In 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland. What happened in those final haunted years and...

When Stalin came to power, making music in Russia became dangerous. Composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for potential...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. From the revolutionary upheaval of 1917 to the cultural thaw of the...

Richter's personal Journals constitute an unparalleled witness to the music of our time. These are the private thoughts of a nonconformist, one of the greatest performers of the century, yet...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work in musicology, Eight Soviet Composers presents a focused and authoritative survey of the major compositional...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the twentieth century's most revolutionary musical minds tells his own story in An Autobiography, a candid...

A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music "A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the 19th...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded with tear on spine (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis definitive volume unveils the extraordinary, long-hidden visual legacy of Imperial Russia through the...

The third and final volume of Prokofiev's Diaries covers the years 1924 to1933 when he was living in Paris. Intimate accounts of the successes and disappointments of a great creative...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of arts biography, Richard Buckle's Diaghilev chronicles the extraordinary life of Sergei Diaghilev, the visionary Russian impresario...

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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light tanning on foxing on block, some tide lines on internal pages but mainly...