Titoli in Compositori e musicisti

Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.

In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer with a divided soul.

Claude Debussy is regarded by many as the quintessential French composer, with music that invited both warm applause and frosty criticism in his day. While our ears no longer hear him as controversial, his works heralded the dawn of an artistic period founded on innovation and experiment, and a desire to break with the past in search of new expressive means. With never a dull moment, Debussy went from being a musical misfit at the Paris Conservatoire to bohemian life amongst the Symbolist poets and some scandalous love affairs.

The revealing, wildly entertaining, and bestselling memoir from the legendary Bruce Springsteen, one of the greatest songwriters and performers of any era. Born to Run is the greatest rock ‘n’ roll story ever told. Essential reading for the 50th anniversary of Springsteen’s seminal album...

I Access all areas berättar Anders Tengner för första gången om sitt liv med hårdrockens storheter. Under tjugofem år flög han jorden runt och mötte hundratals rockband, många av dem privat. Hans intervju- och fotoarkiv är helt unikt i sitt slag, och här öppnar han för första...

Uno de los talentos musicales más importantes de la historia. Nacido en 1770, rebelde, infatigable, genial y ¡sordo!, es considerado el último gran representante del clasicismo vienés (después de Haydn y Mozart). Su obra imperecedera (donde destacan colosales sus inmortales nueve sinfonías) ha sido aclamada por los críticos de todas las épocas.

Everybody knows Dolly Parton. Or do they? Behind the rhinestones, the wigs and the jokes was one of the most remarkable songwriters, performers and business minds in American popular culture. Dolly Parton takes a different route through an extraordinary life. Rather than moving dutifully through...

2026 EDITION FEATURES A NEW, EXCLUSIVE FOREWORD BY NOEL GALLAGHER ADAPTED INTO A LIMITED SERIES DIRECTED BY DANNY BOYLE 2016 Foreword by Chrissie Hynde Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones...

Immerse yourself in Stevie Nicks's incredible life to learn invaluable pearls of wisdom from this portrait of one of today’s most resilient music icons. "Just dance. This will pass. Love will find a way. It always does." Written by music journalist Rachel Brodsky, Lessons & Lace draws on...

Imagine que um amigo seu é músico e escritor conhecido mundialmente – como Neil Peart, baterista e letrista da lendária banda de rock Rush. A cada dois ou três meses, ele envia para você uma carta cheia de grandes sacadas, ricamente ilustrada com fotos, falando...

"Não é exagero: Halford desnuda sua alma nesse livro." ― Revolver Magazine Rob Halford, líder do Judas Priest, banda de metal icônica em todo o mundo, é um verdadeiro "Deus do Metal". Confesso, sua aguardada autobiografia, é uma...

As cicatrizes reais de uma lenda da música. Considerada pela Rolling Stone como uma das melhores autobiografias de roqueiros de todos os tempos, Scar Tissue expõe a alma de Anthony Kiedis, vocalista do Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis oferece uma história de dedicaç...

Era pra ter durado uma noite só. Era pra ter sido somente uma banda de abertura. Era pra ter outro nome. Não era pra ser um trio. Eram várias variáveis. Graças a essa sucessão de fatos estranhos, quando não ter plano é o melhor plano...

Beethoven está mais vivo do que nunca. Suas composições são executadas em orquestras ao redor do mundo e sua popularidade ultrapassa os limites dos apreciadores da música clássica: as quatro notas que abrem sua Quinta Sinfonia são conhecidas por...

Acho que era outubro de 86. Ali começava uma história que continua até hoje. E só parece melhorar. Uma história sobre três garotos sem os braços tatuados, nerds e amigos de colégio, que amavam música, sonhavam em formar uma banda de...

O Festival de Woodstock, de 1969, é uma referência cultural norte-americana e mundial, e nenhum outro livro captura o ambiente, a música e as maquinações dos bastidores com mais brilho e fidelidade do que a obra de Michael Lang, um best-seller do New York Times...

From the award-winning biographer of Elvis Presley, a groundbreaking dual portrait of the relationship between the iconic artist and his legendary manager—drawing on a wealth of the Colonel's never-before-seen correspondence to reveal that this oft-reviled figure was in fact a confidant...

A frank and open memoir from beloved Blue Wiggle and national treasure Anthony Field. Music is brain food and emotional sustenance for little ones...Above all other qualities, there is a purity to music - any music - that transcends the spoken word. It's audible beauty. Want to give something...

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough. In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her...

The legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s—a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of “the scene” in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia. “Strange to...