Classical Music Month

Classical Music Month is observed in September. It was established in 1994 by President Bill Clinton's proclamation. The month aims to celebrate the study and beauty of classical music. Here's a list of books to get you started.

Updated August 22, 2025
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Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography
Swafford, Jan.
Paper Book
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...
Verdi's Shakespeare : men of the theater
Wills, Garry
Paper Book
IN THIS DAZZLING STUDY of the three operas that Verdi adapted from Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of these triumphant works- Macbeth, Othello, and Falstaff. An Italian composer who could not read a...

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