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Composer Books:  01
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Silence: Lectures and Writings  -  by John Cage

Beethoven  -  by Maynard Solomon

Johannes Brahms A Biography (Vintage)  -  by Jan Swafford

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician   -  by Christoph Wolff

Mozart : A Life  -  by Maynard Solomon

Richard Strauss (The Master Musicians)  -  by Michael Kennedy

Mozart  -  by Peter Gay

George Gershwin -- His Life & Music  -  by Ean Wood

The New Grove Russian Masters   -  Glinka, Borodin, Balakirev, Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky (The New Grove Series)  -  by David Brown

Gustav Mahler : The Symphonies  -  by Constantin Floros

Richard Wagner : The Last of the Titans  -  by Joachim Kohler, Stewart Spencer

Beethoven : The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives)  -  by Edmund Morris

Chopin: Pianist and Teacher : As Seen by his Pupils  -  by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger

Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters  -  by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Spaethling

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

Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Russian Music Studies)  -  by Sergei Bertensson

The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  -  by Neal Zaslaw (Editor), William Cowdery (Editor)

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

Gustav Mahler : A Life in Crisis   -   by Stuart Feder

The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz (Everyman's Library (Cloth))   -   by Hector Berlioz

The Lives and Times of the Great Composers  -  by MICHAEL STEEN

1791: Mozart's Last Year  -  by H. C. Robbins Landon

Haydn: A Creative Life in Music  -  by Karl Geiringer

Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination  -  by Maynard Solomon

Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer|  -  by Tad Szulc

The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  -  by Perry Keenlyside

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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Composer Books:  02
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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   -   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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Composer Books:  03

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Ruth Crawford Seeger   -   A Composer's Search for American Music&n