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Silence: Lectures and Writings
by John Cage
Beethoven
by Maynard Solomon
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
by Christoph Wolff
Johannes Brahms A Biography (Vintage)
by Jan Swafford
Richard Strauss (The Master Musicians)
by Michael Kennedy
Mozart : A Life
by Maynard Solomon
George Gershwin -- His Life & Music
by Ean Wood
Mozart
by Peter Gay
The New Grove Russian Masters, I: Glinka, Borodin, Balakirev, Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky (The New Grove Series)
by David Brown
Gustav Mahler : The Symphonies
by Constantin Floros
Beethoven : The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives)
by Edmund Morris
Richard Wagner : The Last of the Titans
by Joachim Kohler, Stewart Spencer 
Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Spaethling
Chopin: Pianist and Teacher : As Seen by his Pupils
by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner
by John Williamson
In Search of Wagner
by Theodor W. Adorno
Testimony : The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
by Solomon Volkov, Dmitri Shostakovich (Composer) 
Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art (General Interest)
by M. Owen 
The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Neal Zaslaw (Editor), William Cowdery (Editor) 
Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Russian Music Studies)
by Sergei Bertensson
Mozart's Operas (A Centennial Book)
by Daniel Heartz, Thomas Bauman
Beethoven: The Music and the Life
by Lewis Lockwood
Shostakovich and Stalin : The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator
by Solomon Volkov
The New Bach Reader
by Hans T. David
Reflections On Liszt
by Alan Walker
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Hector Berlioz
Gustav Mahler : A Life in Crisis
by Stuart Feder
The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
by MICHAEL STEEN
Haydn: A Creative Life in Music
by Karl Geiringer
1791: Mozart's Last Year
by H. C. Robbins Landon
Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
by Maynard Solomon
The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Perry Keenlyside
Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer
by Tad Szulc
Arvo Part (Oxford Studies of Composers)
by Paul Hillier
The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn (Cambridge Companions to Music)
by Peter Mercer-Taylor
The New Grove Mozart
by Cliff Eisen
Gustav Mahler: Letters To His Wife
by Gustav Mahler
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934
by Stephen Walsh
Beethoven as I Knew Him
by Anton Felix Schindler
The Mozart Compendium: A Guide to Mozart's Life and Music
by H.C. Robbins Landon
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Gustav Mahler : Vienna : The Years of Challenge (1897-1904)
by Henry-Louis De La Grange 
Beethoven and His World
by Scott Burnham (Editor), Michael P. Steinberg 
Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I
by Elliot Forbes
Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman
by Nancy B. Reich
The New Grove Schubert (The New Grove
by Maurice J. E. Brown, Eric Sams
Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age"
by John Daverio 
Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings
by Max Harrison
Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944
by Adrienne Fried Block
Delius As I Knew Him
by Eric Fenby
Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography
by Harlow Robinson 
Franz Liszt : Volume 3: The Final Years, 1861-1886 (Franz Liszt)
by Alan Walker
Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influences
by Jane Stuart Smith
The Composers: A Hystery of Music
by Kevin Reeves, Reeves
J. S. Bach (Vol 1)
by Albert Schweitzer
Benjamin Britten (20th-Century Composers)
by Michael Oliver
Puccini: A Biography
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Mendelssohn: A Life in Music
by R. Larry Todd, R. Larry Tood
George Frideric Handel
by Paul Henry Lang 
Richard Strauss : Man, Musician, Enigma
by Michael Kennedy
Charles Ives: A Life With Music
by Jan Swafford
Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work (Sources of Music & Their Interpretation S.)
by Bryan Gilliam
Bach's Passion: The Life of Johann Sebastian Bach
by Ruthann Ridley, Ruthann Ridely
Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation (California Studies in 19th Century Music)
by Walter Frisch
Gorecki (Oxford Studies of Composers)
by Adrian Thomas
Ernst Von Dohnanyi: A Song of Life
by Ilona Von Dohnanyi
Prokofiev--A Biography: From Russia to the West 1891-1935
by David Nice
Mozart's Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception (Clarendon Paperbacks)
by Neal Zaslaw
20th Century Composers: Jean Sibelius
by Guy Rickards
Domenico Scarlatti
by Ralph Kirkpatrick
The George Gershwin Reader
by John Andrew Johnson 
Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind, and His Music
by Richard Wagner
Wagner on Music and Drama: A Compendium of Richard Wagner's Prose Works (A Da Capo Paperback)
by Richard Wagner
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
by Bryan Magee
Handel
by Christopher Hogwood
Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
by Steven C. Smith
Brahms, His Life and Work (Da Capo Paperback)
by Karl Geiringer
Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man
by Alexander Poznansky
The Great Composer As Teacher and Student: Theory and Practice of Composition
by Alfred Mann 
Brahms
by Malcolm MacDonald 
Verdi: A Biography
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music
by Judith Tick
Vaughan Williams
by Simon Heffer
The Life and Works of Beethoven (Classic Literature with Classical Music)
by Jeremy Siepmann 
Chopin : The Man and His Music
by James Huneker
The Composer-Pianists: Hamelin and The Eight
by Robert Rimm
Antonio Vivaldi : The Red Priest of Venice
by Karl Heller
The Cambridge Companion to Debussy (Cambridge Companions to Music)
by Simon Trezise
Maligned Master: The Real Story of Antonio Salieri
by Volkmar Braunbehrens, Eveline L. Kanes
Schumann and His World
by Bard Music Festival
Chopin: The Reluctant Romantic
by Jeremy Siepmann 
The Mozart Myths: A Critical Reassessment
by William Stafford 
Schoenberg and His World
by Walter Frisch
Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
by Johannes Brahms
Janacek: A Composer's Life
by Mirka Zemanova
Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works
by Eric Walter White
Scriabin, a Biography : Second, Revised Edition
by Faubion Bowers
Minimalists (20th Century Composers)
by Schwarz 
Schubert: The Music and the Man
by Brian Newbould 
Bruckner (Master Musicians)
by Derek Watson 
S. Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences
by Sergei Prokofiev
Ravel : Man and Musician
by Arbie Orenstein
The New Grove Italian Baroque Masters (The New Grove Series)
by Denis Arnold
Glory And Honor: The Music And Artistic Legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach (Leaders in Action)
by Gregory Wilbur
Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship
by Robert Craft
Kurt Weill : A Life in Pictures and Documents
by David Farneth
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847, Vol. 1 (Franz Liszt)
by Alan Walker
Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht (Oxford  /  Monographs on Music)
by Rob C. Wegman
Bach : Essays on His Life and Music
by Christoph Wolff
Anton Von Webern (20th-Century Composers)
by Malcolm Hayes
Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861
by Alan Walker
The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents
by Hans T. David
Satie: Seen Through His Letters (Satie Land, Cloth)
by Ornella Volta, Michael Bullock
Gabriel Faure (20th-Century Composers Series)
by Jessica Duchen 
The Life of Charles Ives (Musical Lives
by Stuart Feder
Francis Poulenc (Outlines)
by Richard D. E. Burton
Schumann on Music : A Selection from the Writings
by Henry Pleasants
Mozart : The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
by Friedrich Kerst
Classical Composers : A guide to the lives and works of the great composers from theMedieval , Baroque and Classical eras
by Wendy Thompson
Bernstein: A Biography
by Joan Peyser, Watson-Guptill Pubns 
Beethoven : Studies in the Creative Processes
by Lewis Lockwood
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My Musical Life
by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sources, the Style, the Significance
by Robert L. Marshall 
Glenn Gould: Music & Mind
by Geoffrey Payzant
The Lives of the Great Composers
by Harold C. Schonberg
Mozart in Revolt : Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception
by David Schroeder
Vibrations: The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram
by Douglas Brinkley
Monteverdi (Master Musicians Series)
by Denis Arnold
The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold
by Brendan G. Carroll 
The Life of Elgar (Musical Lives)
by Michael Kennedy
Frederic Chopin As A Man And Musician
by Frederick Niecks
An Autobiography
by Igor Stravinsky
The Music of Elliott Carter (Photos Not Included)
by Elliott Carter
Messiaen
by Robert Sherlaw Johnson
Paganini (The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)
by John Sugden, Sueden
The New Grove French Baroque Masters: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Couperin, Rameau (The New Grove Series)
by James Anthony
William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions (Music of the African Diaspora
by Catherine Parsons Smith  | 
Bachanalia: The Essential Listener's Guide to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
by Eric Lewin Altschuler
A Dictionary-Catalog of Modern British Composers: A-C (Music Reference Collection)
by Alan Poulton
The New Grove Modern Masters (Composer Biography Series)
by Vera Lampert
Music and the Occult: French Musical Philosophies, 1750-1950 (Eastman Studies in Music
by Joscelyn Godwin 
Samuel Barber : A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals)
by Wayne C. Wentzel
Arnold Schoenberg, the Composer As Numerologist
by Colin C. Sterne
The Life of Debussy (Musical Lives)
by Roger Nichols
Conversations With Iannis Xenakis
by Balint Andras Varga
A Comprehensive Biography of Composer Gustav Holst: With Correspondence and Diary Excerpts Including His American Years (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music
by Jon C. Mitchell
American Women Composers (Contemporary Music Review)
by Karin Pendle
The Life and Music of Bela Bartok
by Halsey Stevens, Malcolm Gillies
R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Oxford Lives)
by Ursula Vaughan Williams
Jeno Hubay (1858-1937) (Hungarian Composers)
by Laszlo Gombos
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Anglo-Black Composer, 1875-1912 : Anglo-Black Composer, 1875-1912
by William Tortolano
Carl Nielsen (20th-Century Composers)
by Jack Lawson
Copland: 1900-1942
by Aaron Copland, Vivian Perlis
The Piano Works of Serge Prokofiev
by Stephen C.E. Fiess
Virgil Thomson's Musical Portraits (Thematic Catalogues, No 13)
by Anthony C. Tommasini 
Beethoven's Hair : An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
by Russell Martin
Fritz Kreisler : Love's Sorrow, Love's Joy
by Amy Biancolli 
Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure)
by Anne C. Shreffler
Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers
by William Duckworth
Edvard Grieg: Diaries, Articles, Speeches (Edvard Griegs Briefwechsel / Herausgegeben Von Klaus Henning)
by Edvard Grieg
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803
by Tia Denora
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Ernst Von Dohnanyi: A Song of Life
by Ilona Von Dohnany
Modern Composers
by Wendy Thompson
Music From the Middle Ages Through the 20th Century: Essays in Honor of Gwynn S. McPeek (Musicology)
by Carmelo P. Comberiati, Matthew C. Steel
Tippett on Music
by Meirion Bowen
Musical portraits;: Interpretations of twenty modern composers
by Paul Rosenfeld 
The New Book of Modern Composers
by David, Ewen 
Camille Saint-Saens 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works : The Instrumental Works (Camille Saint-Saens)
by Sabina Teller Ratner
Vincent D'Indy: And His World
by Andrew Thomson
The appreciation of music, vol. II: Great modern composers
by Daniel Gregory Mason
Carl Ruggles: Composer, Painter, and Storyteller (Music in American Life)
by Marilyn J. Ziffrin 
Viennese Harmonic Theory from Albrechtsberger to Schenker and Schoenberg
by Robert W. Wason
The Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen
by Robin MacOnie 
Composers of today
comprehensive biographical and critical guide to modern composers of all nations 
Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music
by Elliott Schwartz
The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923
by Bryan R. Simms
The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Sacred Cantatas (World of the Bach Cantatas)
by Johann Sebastian Bach, Christoph Wolff
Isaac Albeniz : A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals)
by Walter Aaron Clark 
Alban Berg : A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals)
by Bryan R. Simms 
Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals
by Lawrence Earp
Roger Sessions: How a Difficult Composer Got That Way
by Frederik Prausnitz 
Carlos Chavez : A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals)
by Robert B. Parker
Bartok Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist
by Elliott Antokoletz
The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process
by Ann McCutchan
John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer (Music in American Life)
by Howard Pollack
Musically Incorrect: Conversations About Music at the End of the 20th Century
by Hayes Biggs
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