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Discography of Music by Black Composers International Dictionary of Black Composers
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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 
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