What to Read After lives of the great composers
Readers who loved lives of the great composers by Harold C. Schonberg keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where 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 lives of the great composers
A history of western music
The joy of music
Tonal Harmony
Mozart
What to Listen for in Music
The inner game of music
The Art of Practicing
The Rest Is Noise
The Classical Style
Music, Language, and the Brain
Music, the brain, and ecstasy
The Vintage guide to classical music
Stradivari's genius
Tonal Harmony, With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music
Effortless Mastery
Franz Liszt
The inner game of music
Johann Sebastian Bach
The classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
Piano Notes
Barchester Towers
Musicophilia
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Leaves of Grass