Beethoven, Swafford, Jan

Автор: Swafford, Jan
Название: Mozart
ISBN: 0571323251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571323258
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: A vivid new biography, toppling the many myths surrounding Mozart, which will undoubtedly be the standard biography for years to come.

Автор: Swafford Jan
Название: Mozart: The Reign of Love
ISBN: 006243361X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062433619
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: Follow one girl as she builds a rocket and plans to take her friends on an amazing trip to the Sun and Moon. But will the task prove more difficult than she first thought? Imaginatively illustrated by T.S Spookytooth, this clever and inventive poem was written by eleven-year-old Collins Big Cat 2011 Writing Competition winner Nicole Sharrocks.

Автор: Swafford, Jan
Название: Mozart
ISBN: 0571323243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571323241
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: Swafford portrays a man who had his sorrows like everybody else, but who was a high-spirited, high-living bon vivant fond of games of skill, well-read and thoughtful if also at times playing the clown: in the end fundamentally a happy and happily married man who had a wide circle of friends.

Автор: Swafford Jan
Название: Mozart: The Reign of Love
ISBN: 0062433571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062433572
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart's singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun.

Mozart was known to be an inexplicable force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the keyboard to a leap over the furniture. He was forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, jabbering away, but who could grasp your hand and look at you with a profound, searching, and melancholy look in his blue eyes. Even in company there was often an air about Mozart of being not quite there. It was as if he lived onstage and off simultaneously, a character in life's tragicomedy but also outside of it watching, studying, gathering material for the fabric of his art.

Like Jan Swafford's biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: a man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it's nearly impossible to understand classical music's origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.

Автор: Swafford Jan
Название: Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
ISBN: 061805474X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780618054749
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 31350.00 T
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Описание: Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and "fate's hammer," his ever-encroaching deafness. Throughout, Swafford offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works.

More than a decade in the making, this will be the standard Beethoven biography for years to come.

Автор: Swafford, Jan
Название: Johannes Brahms
ISBN: 0679745823 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679745822
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 14100.00 T
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Описание: A New York Times Notable Book

"This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to...become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms."--The Plain Dealer

Judicious, compassionate, and full of insight into Brahms's human complexity as well as his music, Johannes Brahms is an indispensable biography.

Proclaimed the new messiah of Romanticism by Robert Schumann when he was only twenty, Johannes Brahms dedicated himself to a long and extraordinarily productive career. In this book, Jan Swafford sets out to reveal the little-known Brahms, the boy who grew up in mercantile Hamburg and played piano in beer halls among prostitutes and drunken sailors, the fiercely self-protective man who thwarted future biographers by burning papers, scores and notebooks late in his life. Making unprecedented use of the remaining archival material, Swafford offers richly expanded perspectives on Brahms's youth, on his difficult romantic life--particularly his longstanding relationship with Clara Schumann--and on his professional rivalry with Lizst and Wagner.

" Johannes Brahms] will no doubt stand as the definitive work on Brahms, one of the monumental biographies in the entire musical library."--London Weekly Standard

"It is a measure of the accomplishment of Jan Swafford's biography that Brahms's sadness becomes palpable.... Swafford] manages to construct a full-bodied human being."--The New York Times Book Review

Автор: Swafford, Jan
Название: The Vintage Guide to Classical Music
ISBN: 0679728058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679728054
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Swafford Bethany
Название: My Hands Hold My Story
ISBN: 1644406446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644406441
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Автор: Swafford Stanton
Название: China Sea
ISBN: 0996402802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996402804
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Цена: 14950.00 T
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Описание: Working undercover overseas is the furthest thing from Roy Mancini's mind. Then he responds to a "classified ad from heaven," seeking someone to set up and run a new office in Asia. At last this mysterious client is revealed to be The Institute, a human intelligence (humint) task force that reports to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After The Institute hires Roy and trains him in the craft of espionage, he moves to Southeast Asia where he lives under deep cover as a coffee bean trader. Following the recruitment of a clandestine agent from the island of Bali employed as the radio operator on a cargo ship chartered to North Korea, Roy befriends Sasha Popov, a Russian shipping executive, bon vivant, and jazz pianist. Popov is in fact a senior KGB officer whom Roy skillfully manipulates and recruits, driving him to reveal secret information about KGB covert operations.
 As dots are connected, the confluence of intelligence provided by the Balinese agent and the Russian "mole" leads to the discovery of a potentially deadly international conspiracy-and leaves Roy Mancini to prevent a terrorist plot of catastrophic proportions.

Автор: Swafford Alice, Choyce-Lige Crystal
Название: Conquering Darkness: Memoir of the Serial Killer`s Wife
ISBN: 0615852122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615852126
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 14930.00 T
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Автор: Works Carla Swafford
Название: The Least of These: Paul and the Marginalized
ISBN: 0802874460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802874467
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Jesus cared for the least, but did Paul?

The apostle Paul has a reputation for being detached from the concerns of the poor and powerless. In this book, Carla Swafford Works demonstrates that Paul's message and ministry are in harmony with the teaching of Jesus. She brings to light an apostle who preaches and models good news to the "least of these"--the poor, the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the vulnerable.

The Least of These begins by highlighting the presence of the marginalized in Paul's ministry by looking at poverty in Paul's churches, the involvement of slaves and freedpersons in the community, and the role of women in the Pauline mission. Works then examines the significance of the marginalized in Pauline theology by investigating how the apostle employs metaphors of the "least."

Like Jesus, Paul cared deeply for people at the margins. Paul's ministry is consistent with that of Jesus. Both men cared for the poor. Paul served the least in his mission, modeling his apostolic ministry after the cross of Christ. Works shows that Paul, far from being an abstract thinker, was a practical theologian teaching a message and leading a life of compassion, kindness, and care.

Автор: Sanders-Swafford Alvelyn
Название: Lord, Have Mercy: 5 Go-To Prayers When You Need to Pray, But Don`t Know What to Say
ISBN: 1098327829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098327828
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Описание: In the 1960s and `70s, Michigan State College transformed into the major research institution known today as Michigan State University, a true "megaversity." Michigan State University, the final volume of this trilogy, explores the history of that transformation and the growing pains the school endured as it became a part of the Association of American Universities.