Music Lessons: Seven Composers and What They Taught Me

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.

Author: Stephen Johnson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Published: 06/16/2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781912559879