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24 titles for readers of Brahms by Paul Holmes, selected for shared themes: Classical, Genres & Styles, History & Criticism, and Music.

Classical Genres & Styles History & Criticism Music Biography & Autobiography

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New Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers: Claude Debussy — Paul Holmes

New Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers: Claude Debussy

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Stravinsky’s Late Music — Joseph N. Straus

Stravinsky’s Late Music

Joseph N. Straus

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Why Beethoven A Phenomenon in One Hundred Pieces — Norman Lebrecht

Why Beethoven A Phenomenon in One Hundred Pieces

Norman Lebrecht

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 1 (Book & CD) — Maurice Hinson

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 1 (Book & CD)

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Soundscapes A Musician’s Journey Through Life and Death — Paul Robertson

Soundscapes A Musician’s Journey Through Life and Death

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Women and the Piano A History in 50 Lives — Susan Tomes

Women and the Piano A History in 50 Lives

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Dinner with Lenny The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein — Jonathan Cott

Dinner with Lenny The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Mozart Piano Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K. 281 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart Piano Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K. 281

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

The Beethoven Obsession — Brendan Ward

The Beethoven Obsession

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Bach — Malcolm Boyd

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Every Valley The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel’s Messiah — Charles King

Every Valley The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel’s Messiah

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Songs in Motion Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied — Yonatan Malin

Songs in Motion Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World — Norman Lebrecht

Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World

Norman Lebrecht

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Sims Reeves, Fifty Years of Music in England [Facsimile of 1924 Edition] — Charles Pearce

Sims Reeves, Fifty Years of Music in England [Facsimile of 1924 Edition]

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Inside Bluebeard’s Castle Music and Drama in Bela Bartok’s Opera — Carl S. Leafstedt

Inside Bluebeard’s Castle Music and Drama in Bela Bartok’s Opera

Carl S. Leafstedt

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

The Mahler Family Letters — Gustav Mahler

The Mahler Family Letters

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Dowland — K. Dawn Grapes

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Beethoven, A Life — Jan Caeyers

Beethoven, A Life

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Vivian Fine A Bio-Bibliography — Judith Cody

Vivian Fine A Bio-Bibliography

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Playing Before the Lord The Life and Work of Joseph Haydn — Calvin Stapert

Playing Before the Lord The Life and Work of Joseph Haydn

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

On Russian Music — Richard Taruskin

On Russian Music

Richard Taruskin

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Bernstein’s Orchestral Music An Owner’s Manual — David Hurwitz

Bernstein’s Orchestral Music An Owner’s Manual

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Schumann 2nd Edition — Eric Frederick Jensen

Schumann 2nd Edition

Eric Frederick Jensen

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

The Cello and the Nightingales The Life of Beatrice Harrison — Beatrice Harrison

The Cello and the Nightingales The Life of Beatrice Harrison

Beatrice Harrison

Themes: Classical • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Classical, Genres & Styles, History & Criticism — the same threads that run through Brahms by Paul Holmes. Among the authors featured: Paul Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Norman Lebrecht, Maurice Hinson, and others.

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