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'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.'Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his mentor father.

This file includes: Apollo et Hyacinthus (in Latin); Ascanio in Alba (in Italian); Bastien und Bastienne (in German); Cosi fan tutte (in Italian); Die Entführung aus dem Serail (in German); Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe (in German); Die Zauberfloete (in German); Don Giovanni o l'empio punito (in Italian); Idomeneo Re di Creta (in Italian); Il re pastore (in Italian); Il sogno di Scipione (in Italian); La Clemenza di Tito (in Italian); La finta semplice (in Italian); Le Nozze di Figaro (in Italia...

A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.

Score reading provides insights into the musical structure of a work that are difficult to obtain from merely listening. Many listeners and amateurs derive great pleasure from following a performance with score in hand to help them better understand the intricacies of what they are hearing. This guide includes practice examples of increasing difficulty taken from scores of well-known works from various periods.

The music of Antonin Dvorák defies fashion. He is one of the very few composers whose works entered the international mainstream during his own lifetime, and some of them have remained there ever since. The pieces that historically define his international reputation, however, represent only a small fraction of what he actually composed. They comprise just one facet of his complex and remarkably rich artistic personality. This book invites readers to celebrate his extraordinary achievement...

1966 proves to be the "make it or pack up and go home" year for The Aspirations. They are four high school students whose favorite extracurricular activity is playing the Top 40 hits of the day at parties and dances and getting paid to do what they love. Their leader Frank has the highest hopes. The other three -- Sy, Chris, and Ralph -- chafe under Frank's demands.Will they rise above the other more mediocre garage bands and hit success?"1966" is Book 4 n the Americana Seri...

What secrets lie beneath the surface of our world? In A Journey into the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne takes readers on an extraordinary expedition into a mysterious subterranean world. When Professor Otto Lidenbrock discovers a cryptic message pointing toward an ancient volcanic passage, he sets out with his nephew Axel on an adventure deep beneath the Earth's surface. Their journey leads them through vast underground caverns, mysterious landscapes, prehistoric creatures, and extraordi...

Every civilisation before the twentieth century understood that an economy exists to enable human flourishing. Aristotle distinguished household management from unlimited wealth-getting. The Confucian examination system shaped what an entire civilisation invested in for thirteen centuries. Ubuntu traditions measured economic success by the quality of relationships. Indigenous economies sustained ecological systems for tens of thousands of years. Islamic institutions embedded moral evaluati...

Aligned to what?The major AI laboratories have, across the past several years, built and deployed systems they describe as aligned. Asked to name what the alignment specifies, the laboratories have produced a vocabulary of formulations that does not, on close examination, name anything at all. Human values. Shared values. Helpful, honest, harmless. Broadly distributed benefits. The collective will. Each formulation has been treated, in public discussion of AI alignment, as...

Beethoven's works for solo piano – the sonatas, variations, and bagatelles – and the five concertos for piano and orchestra stand at the heart of the repertory. Beethoven's Piano Music: A Listener's Guide, by Victor Lederer, will help the motivated reader understand this popular but often knotty music. The bulk of the text consists of a movement-by-movement analysis of the 32 sonatas, fascinating for their individuality and for the way they trace the master's development.I...

A fascinating adventure that pushes the boundaries of science and imagination. Professor Lidenbrock and his companions discover a hidden path leading deep beneath the Earth's surface. Their dangerous journey takes them through mysterious caverns, underground oceans, and prehistoric wonders beyond belief. Filled with suspense, discovery, and scientific curiosity, the novel captures the excitement of exploration and the thrill of the unknown. Written by Jules Verne, this classic remains one ...

What if intelligence was never one thing?Fourteen civilisations. Twelve dimensions. One argument.The Greek tradition distinguished five intellectual virtues and placed practical wisdom at their summit. The Confucian tradition built a thirteen-century examination system around moral character. Indian logicians developed formal logic using a fundamentally different architecture from Aristotle's. Buddhist philosophy insisted that wisdom without compassion is not yet wisdom. Th...