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Paul Lester

Chronicles the pop singer's rise to fame, from her musical influences and early career to her provocative and popular innovations in music, fashion, and performance.

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Harrison Gradwell Slater

"Stranded in Milan by a train strike, a down-on-his-luck music scholar finds a mysterious document. Could it be the diary Mozart kept when he was an adolescent, traveling through Europe with his father? If authentic, the diary could catapult Matthew Pierce into wealth and fame."--Jacket.

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P.H. Carder

"When the Civil War broke out in 1861, "The Battle Cry of Freedom" became perhaps the most common patriotic song echoing throughout the North. The author of that famous tune was George F. Root, and his many other patriotic songs established him as "the musician of the people.""--Provided by publisher.

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Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

"Spanning the years 1861 to 1893, from two months before his twenty-first birthday to six weeks before his death in Moscow at the age of fifty-three, this collection of nearly seven hundred letters traces the life of the great Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), best known for Romeo and Juliet (1869), Swan Lake (1877), 1812 Overture (1880), and The Nutcracker (1892). These letters offer unique and initimate insights into the composer's life and shed light on the social and political climate in which he lived. Tchaikovsky discusses both his own music and that of his contemporaries, as well as literature, art, and, in a long missive, his reactions to the New World. This volume offers a revelatory look at a man universally acknowledged as one of the masters of classical music."--BOOK JACKET.