Ten Masterpieces of Music Hardcover -

"Harvey Sachs has the rare gift of conveying a great deal of knowledge with a clarity and wit that make it accessible to the student and lover of music while presenting the informed musician with ample food for thought."
--Alfred Brendel, world-renowned pianist

"Few authors have written more memorably on music than Harvey Sachs. In?Ten Masterpieces of Music, this noted biographer and historian of classical music adeptly presents a history . . . that will appeal to a wide range of music lovers, from beginners to connoisseurs. He provides for each composer a concise but penetrating biography that both links him to the broadest cultural currents of his time and explores his highest personal aspirations and deepest anxieties. . . .?Ten Masterpieces of Music?is personal and universal, and will immensely enrich the reader."
--Simon Williams, professor emeritus in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara

"A beautiful book--personal, passionate, an expression of gratitude for a lifetime of listening to and thinking about music.?It will pull in a newcomer to these great works (not all of them familiar) and heighten the understanding of musicians who have known them for many years."
--Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize winner and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University

"A fascinating, fluidly and entertainingly written rumination on great works in the canon, but not those that usually end up on top-ten lists. Harvey Sachs speaks lovingly about the music that has most affected him, offering a subtle defense of the reductively defined 'classical' tradition through user-friendly analyses of eclectic outliers, misunderstood scores, and those that were created under frightful conditions."
--Simon Morrison, professor of music at Princeton University