Hachette India

For the Love of Music

John Mauceri

Why do so many of us listen to classical music and how can you get the most from listening to it?

In this unpretentious and instructive book internationally celebrated conductor and teacher John Mauceri brings to bear his lifetime of experience and profound knowledge. A protÃ©gÃ© of Leonard Bernstein and an artist who has performed and recorded all over the world Mauceri is the guide par excellence to the joys of classical music.

Mauceri illuminates our understanding of what it is we hear when we listen; how each piece bears the traces of its history; and how the concert experience allows us constantly to discover music anew.

'Wonderful' Marilyn Horne

'This delightful book is not so much the opening of a door as an affectionate hand on the arm guiding the reader with enthusiasm and intelligence into a world of beauty' Stephen Hough

John Mauceri

Over the past five decades JOHN MAUCERI has conducted symphonies operas ballets musicals and film music around the world and served as music director of four opera companies and three orchestras as well as hosted television and radio programs. He has more than seventy albums to his name and is the recipient of a Grammy a Tony a Billboard two Diapasons d'or three Emmys and four Deutschen Schallplattenkritik awards. He is the author of Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting and has written for The New York Times Los Angeles Times The Times of London and The Huffington Post among other publications. He lives in New York City.