Overture Music Series



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Lorenzo Da Ponte

Lorenzo Da Ponte

This is the revised edition of April FitzLyon’s celebrated biography of Mozart’s librettist, who provided the brilliant, witty texts for The Marriage of Figaro , Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte . Born a Jew in the Republic of Venice, he became a...
By: April FitzLyon
ISBN: 9780714543703
£19.99  £15.99
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Memories of the Opera

Memories of the Opera

In these vivid and anecdotal memoirs, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, one of the twentieth century’s most successful impresarios, tells of his long reign in two of the world’s most famous opera houses: a decade at La Scala in Milan, followed by twenty-seven...
By: Giulio Gatti-Casazza
ISBN: 9780714543789
£16.99  £13.59
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Playing My Part

Playing My Part

Frida Leider, the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the pre-war period, has a permanent place in operatic history. In this, her own memoirs, Leider recreates the fascinating operatic world of her day, and recounts her association with Bruno Walter,...
By: Frida Leider
ISBN: 9780714543802
£16.99  £13.59
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Schoenberg

Schoenberg

The first complete study of one of the most important and controversial musicians of our time, Stuckenschmidt’s book discusses all Schoenberg’s works, some of them in great detail; it demonstrates Schoenberg’s relationship to his forerunners,...
By: Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt
ISBN: 9780714543727
£24.99  £19.99
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The Price of Genius

The Price of Genius

Pauline García Viardot, the daughter of the famous singer and composer Manuel García and younger sister of the celebrated Malibran, was a singer of genius and a woman of outstanding intellect. The first biography of Viardot not only recreates the...
By: April FitzLyon
ISBN: 9780714543710
£24.99  £19.99
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Traditions of the Classical Guitar

Traditions of the Classical Guitar

First published in 1980, Traditions of the Classical Guitar has been described as the first book to examine in detail the many traditions of one of today’s most popular instruments. With its central focus on Andrés Segovia’s pioneering work in...
By: Graham Wade
ISBN: 9780714543796
£16.99  £13.59
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Wagner the Dramatist

Wagner the Dramatist

Richard Wagner has fascinated every generation of opera lovers for over a century, and a mass of literature has interpreted and reinterpreted not only his character, but also the components of the great music dramas that are still some of the most...
By: H.F. Garten
ISBN: 9780714543772
£16.99  £13.59
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