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Music Lessons : Seven Composers and What They Taught Me

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Overview

From the bestselling author of How Shostakovich Changed My Mind comes a new book about the cathartic power of music. For critic and composer Stephen Johnson, there have been moments when music has confronted him with life-changing insights. Some of these have been hard to accept, but once accepted they have opened up new possibilities of thinking, feeling and living. Through an exploration of seven pieces -- by Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lili Boulanger, Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius and Ludwig van Beethoven -- Johnson considers the lives and the intentions of the composers who created them, and how they have affected him personally.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781912559879
  • ISBN-10: 1912559870
  • Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
  • Publish Date: June 2026
  • Shipping Weight: 1.25 pounds
  • Page Count: 168

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