What to Read After The lives of the great composers
Readers who loved The lives of the great composers by Harold C. Schonberg keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The lives of the great composers is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The lives of the great composers
The Joy of Music
Tonal Harmony
What to Listen for in Music
Mozart
Beethoven
Music, Language, and the Brain
The Classical Style
Louis Armstrong
The Art of Practicing
Effortless Mastery
Stradivari's Genius
Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tonal Harmony, With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music
The Inner Game of Music
Testimony
The Vintage guide to classical music
Franz Liszt
Piano Notes
Barchester Towers
Musicophilia
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Leaves of Grass
Infidel