Un aphorisme hante la philosophie occidentale : celui d'Héraclite, qui veut que "la Nature aime à se voiler". Près de vingt-cinq siècles durant, ces quelques petits mots ont successivement signifié : que tout ce qui naît tend à mourir ; quer la Nature...

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic...

Généalogie d'une démence.Carnets, au jour le jour, parfois heure par heure, d'une lutte avec le démon.D'où il ressort que mon maître était un Pierre Rivière philosophe; un possédé savant; un halluciné hanté par la volonté de comprendre et de regarder son...

The renowned American composer recounts his life and career since the beginning of World War II and discusses the background of his major works

An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Johannes Brahms has consistently eluded his...

Chronicles Mozart's ten years in Vienna, detailing what everyday life in the city was like and profiling famous leaders of the day and the composer's wife, Constanze

Follows the life and discusses the music of the insurance executive who composed in his spare time music of such originality and variety that he ranks today as one of this country's greatest and most thoroughly American composers.