描述
By: Stephen Johnson
From the bestselling author of How Shostakovich Changed My Mind comes a new book about the cathartic power of music.
For critic and composer Stephen Johnson, there have been moments when music has confronted him with life-changing insights. Some of these have been hard to accept, but once accepted they have opened up new possibilities of thinking, feeling and living. Through an exploration of seven pieces — by Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lili Boulanger, Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius and Ludwig van Beethoven — Johnson considers the lives and the intentions of the composers who created them, and how they have affected him personally.
From the bestselling author of How Shostakovich Changed My Mind comes a new book about the cathartic power of music.
For critic and composer Stephen Johnson, there have been moments when music has confronted him with life-changing insights. Some of these have been hard to accept, but once accepted they have opened up new possibilities of thinking, feeling and living. Through an exploration of seven pieces — by Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lili Boulanger, Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius and Ludwig van Beethoven — Johnson considers the lives and the intentions of the composers who created them, and how they have affected him personally.