A selection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic's writings on music and music criticism, composers, contemporary music, singers and vocal music, musicians, pianists ...

Surveys the careers and personalities of the great pianists from Clementi and Mozart to the present day.

Schonberg brings the reader closer to an identification with the composers he discusses and thus closer to an understanding of their music. The book consequently places more ...

Opera is perhaps the world's greatest art form. It combines high drama with sublime music, great seriousness of purpose with tremendous scope for triumph or disaster. In this ...

"Joseph Wechsberg--musician and lifelong opera addict, claqueur, listener and critic--takes the reader on an informative and highly entertaining journey through centuries of ...