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020			_a9781631495182 _qpbk
041			_aeng
082			_a780.9 _bSAC
100			_aSachs, Harvey
245		0	_aTen Masterpieces of Music _c/ Harvey Sachs
260			_bLiveright Publishing Corporation _c2021 _aNew York
300			_axvi, 366 p _b: ill., portraits _c; 25 cm
504			_aBib and Ref
520			_aSome pieces of music survive; most fall into oblivion. What gives the ten masterpieces selected for this book their extraordinary vitality? In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes readers into the heart of ten great works of classical music--works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters--Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Verdi, and Brahms; Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky--communicated their life experiences through music, and through music they universalized the intimate. By expanding our perceptions of these ten pieces--composed in the years between 1784 and 1966--Sachs, in lush, exquisite prose, invites us to consider why music stimulates, disturbs, exalts, and consoles us. He has lived with these masterpieces for a lifetime, and his descriptions of them and the dramatic lives of the composers who wrote them bring a heightened dimension to the musical perceptions of readers who may be casual listeners, students, professional musicians, or anyone in between.
650			_aMusic
650			_aMusic History and criticism
942			_cENGLISH
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