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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS

A composer is a person who writes music. The term refers particularly to someone who writes music in some type of musical notation, thus allowing others to perform the music. This distinguishes the composer from a musician who improvises. However, a person may be called a composer without creating music in documentary form, since not all musical genres rely on written notation. In this context, the composer is the originator of the music, and usually its first performer. Later performers then repeat the musical composition they have heard.

The level of distinction between composers and other musicians also varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music. For example, in the development of classical music in Europe, the function of composing music initially had no greater importance than the function of performing music. The preservation of individual compositions received little attention, and musicians generally had no qualms about modifying compositions for performance. Over time, however, the written notation of the composer has come to be treated as strict instructions, from which performers should not deviate without good reason. This notion is often seen as a romantic one. www.wikpedia.org

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                                                          TITLE          AUTHOR PAGES FORMAT PRICE PURCHASE
22 Contemporary Australian Composers Jenkins, John 190 P $43.95
A Concertgoer's Companion to Brahms (used) Dale, Kathleen 118 H $7.95
A Life for New Music: Selected Papers of Paul Fromm Gable, David 86 H $37.50
A Life in Music Barenboim, Daniel 198 H $19.95
A Responsive Chord: Story of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 1894-1969 (used) Not Listed 62 H $5.95
A Virgil Thomson Reader (used) Thomson, Virgil 587 P $6.95
According to Ravel Perlemuter, Vlado 92 H $23.50
Always Playing: Nigel Kennedy Kennedy, Nigel 222 P $8.95
American Composers Strickland, Edward 220 P $19.95
An Autobiography by Virgil Thomson Thomson, Virgil 424 P $12.50
And Music at the Close: Stravinsky's Last Years (used) Libman, Lillian 400 H $12.50
Andre Previn Freedland, Michael 312 H $12.95
Annerose Schmidt: Fur Sie Portratiert (German) (used) Schmidt, Annerose 60 P $12.95
Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops (used) Dickson, Harry 174 H $6.25
Arturo Toscanini Haggin, B. 296 P $16.95
As Thousands Cheer: Life of Irving Berlin (used) Bergreen, Lawrence 658 P $8.95
As Thousands Cheer: Life of Irving Berlin Bergreen, Lawrence 658 P $19.95
Authorised Biography of Sir Alexander Gibson Wilson, Conrad 192 H $32.95
Bach-Jahrbuch 1912: Published 1913 (Used in German) Bachgefellfchaft, Reuen 154 H $29.95
Bad Boy of Music (used) Antheil, George 378 H $12.95
Beethoven Concertos and Overtures Fiske, Roger 63 P $8.95
Beethoven on Records (used) Marek, George 94 P $6.95
Beethoven or Bust: Practical Guide to Understanding and Listening Hurwitz, David 230 P $12.95
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Matthews, Denis 55 P $8.95
Beethoven Symphonies Simpson, Robert 62 P $8.95
Beethoven Symphony No. 1 (used) Eulenburg, E. 84 P $4.95
Beethoven: Und Seine Zeit (German)  (used) Verlag, Emil 74 H $11.95
Berg: Violin Concerto Poplw, Anthony 121 P $13.95
Berloiz Macdonald, Hugh 261 H $20.95
Berloiz and his Century Barzun, Jacques 444 P $19.95
Berloiz and his Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism  (used) Barzun, Jacques 444 P $13.50
Berloiz: Volume 1 The Making of an Artist Cairns, David 586 P $14.25
Berloiz: Volume 1 The Making of an Artist Cairns, David 586 H $38.95
Bernstein: A Biography Peyser, Joan 461 P $7.95
Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions and Librettos Partch, Harry 487 H $58.95
Brahms: The Man and His Music (used) Lee, E. 185 H $12.50
Brecht in Context Willett, John 274 H $29.50
Bruckner Symphonies Barford, Philip 68 P $9.25
Cardius on Music Wright, Donald 336 H $44.75
Cardus on Music Wright, Donald 336 P $14.25
Chaliapin Gorky, Maxim 320 P $9.50
Chanter Mestuet Rosenberg, Samuel 560 H $44.95
Charles Ives Remembered Perlis, Vivian 236 P $16.95
Chopin: Pianist and Teacher as Seen by his Pupils Eigeldinger, Jean 324 P $31.95
Complete Book of Great Musicians Scholes, Percy 150 P $14.25
Contemporary Musicians in Photographs (used) Ouzer, Louis 118 P $7.95
Conversations with Menuhin Daniels, Robin 191 P $9.50
Conversations with Stockhausen Tannenbaum, Mya 102 H $34.25
Copland 1900 Through 1942 Copland, Aaron 402 P $17.50
Copland 1900 Through 1942 Copland, Aaron 403 H $28.50
Copland Since 1943 Copland, Aaron 463 H $38.95
Debussy in Proportion Howat, Roy 239 P $34.25
Debussy on Music: Critical Writings Lesure, Francois 353 P $24.75
Debussy: Orchestral Music Cox, David 64 P $11.95
Deep-Flowing Brook: The Story of Johann Sebastian Bach (used) Goss, Madeleine 289 H $7.50
Delius (used) Hutchings, Arthur 193 H $12.95
Dent Master Musicians: Vivaldi Talbot, Michael 237 P $32.95
Domenico Scarlatti Kirkpatrick, Ralph 489 P $27.95
Dvorak in Love (used) Skvorecky, Josef 322 H $16.95
Dvorak Symphonies and Concertos Layton, Robert 71 P $11.95
Elgar Orchestral Music Kennedy, Michael 64 P $6.25
Encounters with Verdi Conati, Marcello 417 P $24.75
Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music (used) Cross, Milton 1009 H $14.95
Essays on a New orpheus: Kurt Weill Kowalke, Kim 374 P $27.95
Essays on J.S. Bach (Used) Herz, Gerhard 276 P $19.95
Felix Mendelssohn and his Times (used) Jacob, Heinrich 356 H $9.50
Felix Mendelssohn: A Life in Letters Elvers, Rudolph 334 H $13.25
Furtwangler Schonzeler, Hans 181 H $45.50
George Antheil: Bad Boy of Music Antheil, George 378 P $18.25
George Gershwin Kendall, Alan 192 H $14.25
Giuseppe Verdi (used) Rutters, Herman 59 H $8.50
Glenn Gould: Selected Letters Roberts, John 260 P $17.50
Glenn Gould: Selected Letters Roberts, John 260 H $26.25
Great Composers in Historic Photographs Camner, James 125 P $15.95
Greig Horton, John 255 P $14.25
Haydn: A Creative Life in Music Geiringer, Karl 403 P $16.95
Herbert Von Karajan Vaughan, Roger 274 H $22.25
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Bartok Milne, Hamish 112 P $19.95
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Berloiz Leach, Robert 124 P $19.95
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Chopin Orga, Ates 144 P $19.95
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Elgar Mundy, Simon 138 P $19.95
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Mahler Seckerson, Edward 150 P $22.25
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Offenbach Gammond, Peter 168 P $19.95
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Purcell Mundy, Simon 10 P $22.25
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Vivaldi Booth, John 143 P $19.95
Impresario: The Zeler Era 1930-1990 (used) Zeler, Sarah 300 H $29.50
Impresario: The Zeler Era 1930-1990 Zeler, Sarah 300 H $39.95
Interviews with George Balanchine: Balanchine's Tchaikovsky (used) Volkov, Solomon 252 P $9.50
J.S. Bach (German) (used) Marcel, Luc 182 P $4.50
J.S. Bach (German) (used) Hikig, Wilhelm 60 H $7.95
J.S. Bach: Musical Offering. History, Interpretation and Analysis David, Hans 190 P $7.95
J. Sebastian Bach (Used in German) Schweitzer, Albert 790 H $19.95
Jean-Pierre Rampal: Music, My Love Rampal, Jean 193 H $25.50
Johann Strauss: Father and Son and Their Era (used) Fantel, Hans 246 H $12.50
Johannes Brahms (German) (used) Creuzburg, Eberhard 91 P $7.50
Johannes Brahms (German) (used) Forner, Johannes 144 H $10.25
John Barbirolli (used) Rigby, Charles 191 H $9.50
John Cage: Composed in America Perloff, Marjorie 285 P $23.95
John Cage: Composition in Retrospect Cage, John 171 P $17.50
John Foulds and his Music: An Introduction Macdonald, Malcolm 150 P $30.25
Julian's Way: A Practical Commentary on Julian of Norwich Bradley, Ritamary 231 P $14.25
Karajan: Notes on a Career Bachmann, Robert 371 H $46.95