Skip to main content
Search Button
Worldwide Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Classical & Opera eBooks

If you like Classical & Opera eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 3076 Results
Skip side bar filters

  • Clair de Lune Easy Elementary Piano Sheet Music

    by Claude Debussy ...
    From Debussy's famous "Suite Bergamasque for Easy / Novice PianoEasy Note Style Sheet MusicLetter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead!Quality Custom Made Original Sheet Music Arrangements ... Read more

    $2.90 USD

  • The Bach Cello Suites

    A Companion

    by Steven Isserlis ...
    A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis.'Isserlis is the master of the material, yet always able to make it accessible . . . It is an absolute treat to be led to this sublime music by such an ethusiastic expert.'MICHAEL PALIN'The book I've always wanted: an accessible, eloquent guide to the world's greatest - and maybe most elusive ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • 靜默之聲：蕭士塔高維契與他的十五首弦樂四重奏

    Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His FifteenQuartets

    by 溫蒂・蕾瑟 ...
    Translated by 朱得嘉 ...
    溫蒂．蕾瑟，一位評論界寧靜的巨人，最近將她廣袤無垠的好奇心轉向一位被上了枷鎖的天才。《靜默之聲》是她以十五首弦樂四重奏為框架寫成的傳記。蕾瑟的出發點是，弦樂四重奏是蕭士塔高維契最發自內心的音樂——正如如他的遺孀所說，它們記錄著「他靈魂故事的日記」——也是我們通往作曲家內心世界的最佳途徑。——《句號網》，卡萊爾（Alli Carlisle）在此之前，絕大部份關於蕭士塔高維契的書不是聚焦在他的交響曲和歌劇，就是他和他所身處的政權之間的關係，或者兩者兼有，因為這些大型作品正是他最備受關注，有時則是遭到蘇聯政權譴責的作品。本書帶我們從後門——他的十五首弦樂四重奏——一窺蕭士塔高維契。他的遺孀認為這些作品是「他靈魂故事的日記」。靜默和聲音有很多種，包括史達林時期大膽的作家、藝術家和音樂家的政治性噤聲；蕭士塔高維契的歌劇的失聲（他轉向弦樂四重奏前被迫放棄的形式）；還有他死去的摯友的死寂之聲 ... Read more

    $10.64 USD

  • 【說故事的古典音樂導聆套書】（二冊）：《說故事的古典音樂導聆【古典樂派】》《說故事的古典音樂導聆【浪漫樂派】》

    by 安仁模 ...
    Translated by 林芳如 ...
    Series Book 42 - In-art
    本套書組合：《說故事的古典音樂導聆【古典樂派】：鋼琴家帶你入門200首名曲，聽懂巴哈到貝多芬的光明與黑暗》、《說故事的古典音樂導聆【浪漫樂派】：鋼琴家帶你入門120首名曲，聽懂舒伯特到布拉姆斯的自由夢想》韓國2000萬點閱率， 音樂類Podcast節目第1名，鋼琴家安仁模的最受歡迎古典音樂入門套書**韋瓦第、巴哈、韓德爾、海頓、莫札特、貝多芬、帕格尼尼、舒伯特、蕭邦、李斯特、舒曼、克拉拉、布拉姆斯、**孟德爾頌... ... Read more

    $21.05 USD

  • How to Listen to Great Music

    A Guide to Its History, Culture, and Heart

    by Robert Greenberg ...
    The perfect music gift from one of the most trusted names in continuing education. Learn how to better appreciate music in this guide that will unlock the knowledge you need to understand “the most abstract and sublime of all the arts.”Whether you're listening in a concert hall or on your iPod, concert music has the power to move you. The right knowledge can deepen the ability of this music to ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • 25 Solos for Flute

    From the Unaccompanied Partitas, Sonatas and Suites of J. S. Bach

    by J. Michael Leonard ...
    Ideal for student recitals, concerts and contests, these 25 solos are beautiful transcriptions from J.S. Bach's unaccompanied works. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Music and Philosophy Volume One

    Legend of a Musical City, Schoenberg and His School, and Shostakovich

    by Max Graf, René Leibowitz, Ivan Martynov ...
    These three essential volumes on classical music theory and history explore the lives and contributions of some of music's greatest minds.In Legend of a Musical City: The Story of Vienna, renowned Austrian music critic Max Graf shares his recollections of life with Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and other immortals of the music world. Bringing ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Rachmaninoff: The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers.

    by Matthew Robert Walker ...
    In this biography, Robert Walker skilfully blends the fascinating story of Rachmaninoff's life with the historical background of his times. The author shows, too, how outside influences- the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the Great War, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression- very much affected Rachmaninoff as an artist. As well as the use of contemporary accounts, letters and reminiscences, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Closest Thing to Crazy

    My Life of Musical Adventures

    by Mike Batt ...
    'Fabulously readable' STEPHEN FRY'Wildly entertaining' DAILY EXPRESS'Rollicking ... ebullient ... Christmas present problems are instantly solved' MAIL ON SUNDAYNominated for the 2025 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound ResearchDescribed variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the mu... ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • D’Oyly Carte

    The Decline and Fall of an Opera Company

    by Paul Seeley ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book considers and discusses aspects of the management of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D’Oyly Carte, and concentrates on key events that contributed to its demise in 1982.In this book, Paul Seeley follows the analytical model that proposes no single factor triggered the collapse, but rather several, both external and internal. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

    by Simon Napier-Bell ...
    You probably know Simon Napier-Bell as the manager of the Yardbirds. Or you may know him as the man who managed Marc Bolan, or Japan. You should definitely know him as the man who managed Wham! And if none of these rings a bell, maybe you'll remember him as the man who co-wrote 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' for Dusty Springfield.You Don't Have To Say You Love Me is one of the funniest books ... Read more

    $4.40 USD

  • Bartók's Mikrokosmos

    Genesis, Pedagogy, and Style

    by Benjamin Suchoff ...
    Now available in paperback! BZla Bart-k's Mikrokosmos is a collection of 153 pieces for piano designed by the composer as a series graded according to difficulty. The pieces were written between 1926 and 1939, and have become by far the best-known series of teaching pieces by a major composer in the twentieth century. This in-depth study investigates Bart-k's Mikrokosmos from three main viewpoints ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Main Stream of Music and Other Essays

    by Donald Francis Tovey ...
    Donald Francis Tovey was born in Eton, England, on August 17, 1875. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and in 1914 became Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University, a post he held for the rest of his life. Sir Donald (he was knighted in 1935) was an accomplished pianist and a conductor of the first rank, as well as a composer of operas and orchestral and chamber music. But his ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Red Priest of Venice

    by Karl Heller ...
    Series series Amadeus
    Antonio Vivaldi's rediscovery after World War II quickly led him from obscurity to his present renown as one of the most popular 18th-century composers. Heller's biography presents the important facets of his life, his works, and his influence on music history. ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Your Lie in April

    A Six-Person Etude

    by Yui Tokiumi, Naoshi Arakawa ...
    THE POPULAR MANGA AND ANIME DRAMA COMES TO LIFE IN WORDS!There’s not a competition that piano prodigy Arima hasn’t won since he started playing. His renditions are matchless in their precision. When he’s only eleven, however, his peerless fingers fall silent—right up there on stage.Exploring the shock of the incident and its aftermath from his friends and rivals’ perspectives, A Six-Person Etude ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • John Dowland in Tablature

    Original John Dowland Lute Solos Transcribed for Solo Guitar in Notation and Tablature

    by Steve Siktberg ...
    For years, classical guitarists have enjoyed playing the lute music of the English composer, John Dowland (1563-1626). Forty of his beautiful compositions are included in this volume. The book is intended for the guitarist with intermediate to advanced fingerstyle technique, and can be played on both nylon and steel string instruments. In order to help capture the unique character of Dowland's ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler

    by Christopher Tarrant, Natalie Wild ...
    The full eBook version of The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler in fixed-layout format.The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler is a fascinating and accessible guide that considers the development of the symphony from a number of different perspectives: analytical, historical, and critical. Exploring important milestones, touchpoints, events, key works, and the composers that surround the genre, it ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • Retracing a Winter's Journey

    Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"

    by Susan Youens ...
    "I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too," Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Speaking the Piano

    Reflections on Learning and Teaching

    by Susan Tomes ...
    In Speaking the Piano, renowned pianist Susan Tomes turns her attention to teaching and learning. Teaching music encompasses everything from putting a drum in a child's hands to helping an accomplished musician unlock the meaning and spirit of the classics. At every stage, some fundamental issues keep surfacing. In this wide-ranging book, Susan Tomes reflects on how her own experience as a learner ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Art of Breathing As The Basis of Tone-Production

    by Leo Kofler ...
    Guide to breathing for singers and public speakers, referencing the theory of breathing, expiration during singing, control of the breath, tone-production, resonance-chambers, and more;"My book differs from the great majority of other works upon voice-culture in still another respect. The majority have been writ ten when their authors were yet in the teens of their professional career. In perusing ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • La Fuzzy Bird Sonata di Takashi Yoshimatsu

    by Guido Picariello ...
    Il libro approfondisce la figura del compositore giapponese Takashi Yoshimatsu con particolare attenzione alla sua "Fuzzy Bird" Sonata per Sassofono e Pianoforte. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Beyond the Aria: Artistic Self-Empowerment for the Classical Singer

    Why You Want It, Why You’ve Been Denied It, and How to Achieve It

    by Neal Goren ...
    It is no secret that the opera industry is contracting and that there are fewer professional opportunities. But what causes one singer to be in demand over another is not exclusively a special instrument or exceptional vocal technique—rather, the ability to interpret the music and portray character convincingly plays an increasingly vital role in today’s opera industry.Beyond the Aria: Artistic ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Daria Klimentova - The Agony and the Ecstasy

    by Daria Klimentova ...
    Daria Klimentová's sizzling chemistry with Russian dancer Vadim Muntagirov, who is nearly 20 years her junior, has reignited the prima ballerina's career - and marks a metamorphosis after her Black Swan-style torments depicted in BBC Four's Agony and Ecstasy, the gripping documentary series aired last year. There has been a metamorphosis since the 'old ballerina' allowed herself to be browbeaten ... Read more

    $5.19 USD

  • Franz Liszt, Volume 2

    The Weimar Years: 1848-1861

    by Alan Walker ...
    Series Book 2 - Franz Liszt
    The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt."You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books"A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three ... Read more

    $15.19 USD