From the bestselling author of the award-winning 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.
| ISBN: | 9781912559879 |
| Publication date: | 16th June 2026 |
| Author: | Stephen Johnson |
| Publisher: | Notting Hill Editions |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 168 pages |
| Genres: |
Music Memoirs Psychology |
From the bestselling author of the award-winning 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.
Music Lessons features in the following genres: Music, Memoirs, Psychology
Music Lessons is available in Hardback
Music Lessons was written by Stephen Johnson and published by Notting Hill Editions
Music Lessons has 168 pages
£14.39