pianists

Describes the life of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine and who devoted her life to music and to her family.

Examines the life of nineteenth-century Russian composer, pianist, and conductor Sergey Rachmaninoff, and provides a critical assessment of his career.

Presents a biography of nineteenth-century German composer and pianist Clara Schumann, discussing her early life and career, her marriage, and her later years, and discussing her relationships with friends and contemporaries, and work as a performer and teacher.

Eighteen-year-old Sam falls in with his mother's bizarre scheme to revitalize his younger brother's flagging career as a piano prodigy, and agrees to compose "new works" by a long dead composer and present them to his brother as the dictations of a ghost.

John has been practicing a magic trick instead of the piano and is worried about disappointing his musician father, but then he gets to be a hero in the castle where his father is performing.

Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place.

For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.

A biography of the Polish piano virtuoso who became the first prime minister of a united Poland after World War I.

When the Irish Civil War breaks out, fourteen-year-old Nora is sent to Tipperary to an unknown aunt and uncle where she becomes involved with a cinema piano-player.