Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This volume contains two of George Frideric Handel's most famous pieces, “Water Music” and “Music for the Royal Fireworks” (HWV348-350). Both pieces were written for the solo piano and are highly recommended for pianists with an interest in Handel's seminal work. George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) was a German baroque composer. He spent most of his career in London and became famous for his oratorios, operas, anthems, and organ compositions. Handel was born in the same year as Johann Seb...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This book contains one of George Handel's most famous compositions, “Messiah, HWV56”, a solo piano oratorio written in 1741. George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) was a German baroque composer. He spent most of his career in London and became famous for his oratorios, operas, anthems, and organ compositions. Handel was born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, and he is commonly hailed as one of the most important composers of the Baroque era. His most notable w...

The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis of the region during wartime. Each country responded to World War II according to its own national interests, which often conflicted with those of the Allies, including the United States. The contributors systematically consider how each country dealt with commonly shared problems: the Axis threat to the national order, the extent of military cooperation with the ...

This volume presents the complete scores for three rondòs composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's: “Rondò K. 485”, “Rondò K. 494”, and “ Rondò K. 511”. Although Mozart was not the first composer to use the rondò , he was arguably the most significant, redefining and adding depth to the form through the creation of smooth transitions between the fast and slow sections. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) was an extraordinarily prolific and seminal composer during the Classical era. He displ...

A New York Times Notable Book of the year.Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the h...

This volume contains the complete scores for some of Beethoven's most famous piano compositions, including “Waldstein”, “Les Adieux”, “Hammer-Klavier”, “Appassionata”, “Grand Sonata”, “Little Pathétique”, “Moonlight Sonata”, and more. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) was a seminal German composer. He had a significant influence on the transition from the Classical to the Romantic era of music, and to this day he is considered to be one the most celebrated and important composers of all t...

Clarity of outline, conciseness, and formal beauty are excellent things in musical works, but an exquisite fancy, a noble imagination, and a lofty poetic spirit are of infinitely greater account; and no one ever possessed these inestimable gifts in richer profusion than Franz Schubert. This new edition of Henry Frost’s 1892 biography of Franz Schubert has been edited and revised. The original references to pieces by Opus number have been replaced with the more commonly used D numbers. Many...

A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco.No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians and intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39. Burned into our collective historical consciousness, it not only prefigured the imminent Second World War but also ushered in a new and horrific form of warfare that would come to define the twentieth century. At the same time it echoed the revolutionary ...