David Schulenberg Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the original Master Musicians Bach volume's publication in 1983 - even since its...

John Clubbe A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven’s political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions. Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas...

David Cairns For the past half-century and more David Cairns has been one of the world's pre-eminent Berlioz scholars, translating Berlioz's freewheeling memoirs and writing a monumental biography of the...

Peter Williams J. S. Bach composed some of the best-loved and most moving music in Western culture. Surviving mostly in manuscript collections, his music also exists in special and unique...

Thomas Voigt 'The most sought-after tenor in the world', the greatest tenor of today', 'the new king of tenors' - for years Jonas Kaufmann has occupied a unique status among...

William Kinderman We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics...

Jan Caeyers This new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven offers connoisseurs and newcomers alike an unparalleled story of the composer’s life and works, written by a renowned conductor and scholar...

James Kaplan From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fast-moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular musicIrving Berlin (1888–1989) has been called—by George Gershwin, among...

Jens Malte Fischer The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his deathA best seller when first published in Germany in 2003,...

Jake Tapper An explosive account of one of the most hubristic mistakes in American political history: Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election despite mounting evidence of his decline, and...

Lawrence James A new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire. January 1, 2014 by Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group...

Ale Edmans How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it.Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines,...