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Sweet Talk
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Susan Mallery
Claire Keyes, a 28-year-old piano prodigy, has never had a real romance. Her music career has left little room for friends or family, which is part of the reason she's estranged from her two sisters. Now reconnecting with her sisters tops her to-do list, along with falling in love for the first time. Original.
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The Loser
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Professor Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard's novel is based loosely on the life of pianist Glenn Gould, whose monstrous talents destroy two of his friends.
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My Young Years
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Artur Rubinstein
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Unconsoled
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Kazuo Ishiguro
A musician of international renown checks into a hotel in eastern Europe. He has the distinct recollection that he is due to perform in the Civic Concert Hall in a few days' time, but as the hotel porter escorts him to his room it occurs to him that there is much more to his visit than he expected.
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Wild Rose
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Doris Mortman
A novel set against the recent history of Hungary. It is the story of a beautiful girl torn between her music, her country and her love. Katalin Gaspar is a world famous pianist who is forced to return from America to her homeland. By the author of "Circles", "First Born" and "Rightfully Mine".
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Clara Schumann, the Artist and the Woman
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Nancy Reich
This biographical study of Clara Schumann follows the glorious musical career which spanned 60 years and influenced the music of the 19th century. The first section of the book focuses on her early life: the strange domination exercised by Clara Schumann's father, the loss of her mother, her agonizing struggle for independence, the choices she was ...
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Small Rain
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Madeleine L'Engle
Katherine Forrester's parents are musicians, and they raise her in a sophisticated, yet bohemian, environment. Lonely, uncertain, Katherine approaches womanhood with an eye towards love as well as a career as a concert pianist.
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Severed Wasp
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Madeleine L'Engle
Katherine Forrester Vigneras, in a continuation of her story from The Small Rain, returns to New York City from Europe to retire. Now in her seventies, she encounters an old friend from her Greenwich Village days who, it turns out, is the former Bishop of New York. He asks Katherine to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine ...
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Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story
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Lang Lang, David Ritz
This inspiring biography documents the remarkable story of a boy and his father who sacrificed almost everything--family, financial security, and their reputation in China's insular classical music world--for the belief in a young boy's talent.
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Body & Soul
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Frank Conroy
The saga of Claude Rawlings, child prodigy, from the 1940s onward, as he finds himself transformed by his talent.
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Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves
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Helene Grimaud, Ellen Hinsey (Translator)
A celebrated French pianist shares the poignant story of her journey from her early years as a student in Paris to her life as the founder of a wolf conservation center in upstate New York.
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Piano Lessons: Music, Love, & True Adventures
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Noah Adams
The host of NPR's "All Things Considered" tells of the progress and setbacks in his learning to play the piano in mid-life.
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Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso
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Susanna Reich
Describes the life of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine and who devoted her life to music and to her family.
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Great Pianists
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Harold C Schonberg
The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities of history's greatest pianists--from Mozart to the modern-day masters.
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Am I too loud?Memoirs of an accompanist.
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Gerald Moore
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Tell Me Why
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Stella Cameron
Intrigued when he sees renowned jazz pianist Carolee Burns playing in a small bistro, former athlete Max Wolfe wants to know more about her. Hiding from the end of her marriage and the painful estrangement from her daughter is the only way Carolee can cope. When she slowly begins to let Max into her life, tragedy shatters her new confidence and ...
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Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation with Martin Meyer
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Martin Meyer, Alfred Brendel, Richard Stokes (Translator)
In this series of conversations with a Swiss journalist, Alfred Brendel discusses his life, his career, composers, other pianists, and his attitudes toward life and art.
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Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing
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Linda Katherine Cutting
"There are three kinds of memory slips, I tell my students. One, when Memory slips but you find your way back without losing a beat. Two, when you don't find your way back until the downbeat. Three, when you don't find your way back in time and must stop and restart the music. I don't tell them about a fourth possibility, when one memory slips, ...
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Evenings with Horowitz: A Personal Portrait
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David Dubal
Evenings with Horowitz details a special friendship between two musicians. The book is a vivid account of their mutual passion for music and the piano. It reflects the struggles and triumphs of Vladimir Horowitz, a flaming genius who was also insecure and fearful of old age and the loss of his powers. In his conversations with the author, the ...
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Longing
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J D Landis
This novel about the relationship between Robert Schumann and his wife Clara begins when Schumann is dying and reminiscing about the events of his life, which include his dissipated youth, his failures and successes as a musician, and--most of all--his love for the beautiful and gifted Clara. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
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Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum
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James Lester
Art Tatum was a one-of-a-kind genius who influenced fellow piano players and other contemporary musicians alike--his individualistic style was all the more remarkable for his blindness---but about whom little has been written. James T. Lester's informative biography contains a high astonishment quotient in the many interviews he conducts with ...
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Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey
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Perri Knize
A fascinating, beautifully written story, "Grand Obsession" chronicles one womans obsessive search for the perfect piano. Filled with little-known facts about the instrument and its mystique, this work is as enlightening as it is engaging.
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Farewell recital : further memoirs
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Gerald Moore
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Notes of a Pianist
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Louis M Gottschalk
"Notes of a Pianist" chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). An important cultural and historical work, this book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the ...
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Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler
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Kathryn Talalay
A biography of the black pianist and composer, one of the greatest child prodigies of the 1930s, whose phenomenal talent met with overwhelming early success only to languish just as rapidly, a victim of the tragedies and prejudices that overtook her.
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