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- Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by his Pupils
- George Gershwin: His Life and Work by Howard Pollack
- The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith
- Mozart: His Character, His Work (Galaxy Books) by Alfred Einstein
- Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans by Joachim Kohler
- The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I: Wozzeck by George Perle
- The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text by Alfred Durr
- Shostakovich: A Life by Laurel Fay
- Shostakovich Symphonies and Concertos - An Owner's Manual: by David Hurwitz
- The Cambridge Companion to Mozart
- Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
- Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by David Fanning
- The Life of Mahler (Musical Lives) by Peter Franklin
- Beethoven`s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion by Charles Rosen
- Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847, Vol. 1 (Franz Liszt) by Alan Walker
- The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I: Wozzeck by George Perle
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography by Piero Melograni
- A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Volume IC Born Before 1900 by Pamela Youngdahl Dees
- Aspects of Wagner (Oxford Paperbacks) by Bryan Magee
- Beethoven's Letters by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff
- Zemlinsky by Antony Beaumont
- Beethoven (Revised Edition) by Maynard Solomon
- J.S. Bach: A Life in Music by Peter Williams
- Berlioz: Volume One: The Making of an Artist, 1803-1832 by David Cairns
- Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis by Stuart Feder
- Peter Tchaikovsky (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) by Mike Venezia
- Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana
- Biographical Dictionary of Russian/Soviet Composers
- The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach: Music to Delight the Spirit Volume 1: 1695-1717 by Richard Jones
- Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score by Christoph Wolff
- Chopin - A Listener's Guide to the Master of the Piano: Unlocking the Masters Series (Unlocking the Masters) by Victor Lederer
- Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony by Arnold Steinhardt
- J.S. Bach: A Life in Music by Peter Williams
- Beethoven (Master Musicians Series) by Barry Cooper
- Schubert: The Music and the Man by Brian Newbould
- Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life In Pictures And Documents by Hans Conrad Fischer
- Puccini: His Life and Works (Master Musicians Series) by Julian Budden
- Classical Composers: An Illustrated History by Peter Gammond
- Johannes Brahms: A Biography by Jan Swafford
- Wagner and the Art of the Theatre by Patrick Carnegy
- Talks With Great Composers by Arthur Abell
- Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by Caryl Emerson
- Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings by Max Harrison
- The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present by Harold C. Schonberg
- Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 by Adrienne Fried Block
- Analyzing Bach Cantatas by Eric Chafe
- Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by David Yearsley
- Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Solomon Volkov
- Notes of a Pianist by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- The Classical Style by Charles Rosen
- The Complete Operas of Mozart (Da Capo Paperback) by Charles Osborne
- Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms by John Daverio
- Ferruccio Busoni by Antony Beaumont
- Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon
- The Symphonies of Gustav Mahler: A Critical Discography (Discographies) by Lewis M. Smoley
- Stravinsky's Late Music (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis) by Joseph N. Straus
- Messiaen by Peter Hill
- What to Listen for in Beethoven by Robert Harris
- Beethoven: His Spiritual Development by J.W.N. Sullivan
- The Wagner Operas by Ernest Newman
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9: Choral (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Nicholas Cook
- 700 Years of Classical Treasures: The Composers, Their Instruments, and Works by Reader's Digest Editors
- Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 by Alan Walker
- Dictionary of Composers and Their Music by Eric Gilder
- The Rough Guide To Classical Music
- The Mahler Family Letters by Stephen McClatchie
- The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
- Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) by Jeffrey Kallberg
- Sibelius Orchestral Works: An Owner's Manual (Unlocking the Masters
- Beethoven and the Creative Process (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Barry Cooper
- The Cambridge Companion to Debussy
- Wagner's Ring and Its Symbols by Robert Donington
- A Conductor's Guide to the Choral-Orchestral Works of J. S. Bach by Jonathan D. Green
- Mozart: A Cultural Biography by Robert W. Gutman
- Haydn: The Late Years 1801-1809 (Haydn : Chronicle and Works) by H. C. Robbins Landon
- Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 by Stephen Walsh
- Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by David Cooper
- Brahms, His Life and Work (Da Capo Paperback) by Karl Geiringer
- Domenico Scarlatti by Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Wagner and Beethoven: Richard Wagner's Reception of Beethoven by Klaus Kropfinger
- Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards (Canto original series) by Gerhard von Breuning
- Complete Song Cycles by Franz Schubert
- The Life of Debussy (Musical Lives) by Roger Nichols
- Copland: Since 1943 by Aaron Copland
- Gabriel Faure (20th-Century Composers Series) by Jessica Duchen
- The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
- Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination by Maynard Solomon
- Debussy's Iberia (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure) by Matthew Brown
- The Music of Elliott Carter (Photos Not Included) by David Schiff
- Bach's Passion: The Life of Johann Sebastian Bach by Ruthann Ridley
- Leonard Bernstein: Notes from a Friend by Schuyler Chapin
- Scriabin, a Biography: Second, Revised Edition by Faubion Bowers
- Schoenberg and His World
- Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters by Johannes Brahms
- For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet by Rebecca Rischin
- Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini
- The Life and Times of George Frederic Handel MusicMakers: World's Greatest Composers) (Masters of Music) by Jim Whiting
- Francis Poulenc (20th-Century Composers) by Benjamin Ivry
- The Keyboard Music of J. S. Bach, 2nd Edition by David Schulenberg
Edward Elgar, Modernist (Music in the Twentieth Century) by J. P. E. Harper-Scott
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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, I: 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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- 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
- Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works | by Eric Walter White
- Janacek: A Composer's Life | by Mirka Zemanova
- 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
- Gabriel Faure (20th-Century Composers Series) | by Jessica Duchen
- Francis Poulenc (Outlines) | by Richard D. E. Burton
- Satie: Seen Through His Letters (Satie Land, Cloth) | by Ornella Volta, Michael Bullock
- The Life of Charles Ives (Musical Lives | by Stuart Feder
- 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
- Bernstein: A Biography | by Joan Peyser, Watson-Guptill Pubns
- Classical Composers : A guide to the lives and works of the great composers from theMedieval , Baroque and Classical eras | by Wendy Thompson
- 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
- 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 eorg Trakl (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure) | by Anne C. Shreffler
- Edvard Grieg: Diaries, Articles, Speeches (Edvard Griegs Briefwechsel / Herausgegeben Von Klaus Henning) | by Edvard Grieg
- Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers | by William Duckworth
- 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
- Tippett on Music | by Meirion Bowen
- Music From the Middle Ages Through the 20th Century: Essays in Honor of Gwynn S. McPeek (Musicology) | by Carmelo P. Comberiati, Matthew C. Steel
- Musical portraits;: Interpretations of twenty modern composers | by Paul Rosenfeld
- Camille Saint-Saens 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works : The Instrumental Works (Camille Saint-Saens) | by Sabina Teller Ratner
- The New Book of Modern Composers | by David, Ewen
- 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
- Isaac Albeniz : A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals) | by Walter Aaron Clark
- The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Sacred Cantatas (World of the Bach Cantatas) | by Johann Sebastian Bach, Christoph Wolff
- 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
- Carlos Chavez : A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals) | by Robert B. Parker
- The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process | by Ann McCutchan
- Musically Incorrect: Conversations About Music at the End of the 20th Century | by Hayes Biggs
- Roger Sessions: How a Difficult Composer Got That Way | by Frederik Prausnitz
- Bartok Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist | by Elliott Antokoletz
- John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer (Music in American Life) | by Howard Pollack
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- Ernst Von Dohnanyi: A Song of Life | by Ilona Von Dohnany
- Modern Composers | by Wendy Thompson
- Tippett on Music | by Meirion Bowen
- Music From the Middle Ages Through the 20th Century: Essays in Honor of Gwynn S. McPeek (Musicology) | by Carmelo P. Comberiati, Matthew C. Steel
- Musical portraits;: Interpretations of twenty modern composers | by Paul Rosenfeld
- Camille Saint-Saens 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works : The Instrumental Works (Camille Saint-Saens) | by Sabina Teller Ratner
- The New Book of Modern Composers | by David, Ewen
- 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