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Composer Books: 01.
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Silence: Lectures and Writings - by John CageBeethoven - 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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Gustav Mahler : Vienna - The Years of Challenge (1897-1904) - by Henry-Louis De La GrangeBeethoven 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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Ruth Crawford Seeger - A Composer's Search for American Music - by Judith TickVaughan Williams - by Simon Heffer
The Life and Works of Beethoven - 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 - 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 - by Denis Arnold
Glory And Honor: The Music And Artistic Legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach - 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 - 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-KorsakovThe 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 - 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 - by James Anthony
William Grant Still - 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 - by Alan Poulton
The New Grove Modern Masters - 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 - by Roger Nichols
Conversations With Iannis Xenakis - by Balint Andras Varga
Comprehensive Biography of Composer Gustav Holst - With Correspondence & Diary Excerpts - by Jon C. Mitchell
American Women Composers - by Karin Pendle
The Life and Music of Bela Bartok - by Halsey Stevens, Malcolm Gillies
R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams - by Ursula Vaughan Williams
Jeno Hubay (1858-1937) (Hungarian Composers) - by Laszlo Gombos
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: - Anglo-Black Composer, 1875-1912 - by William Tortolano
Carl Nielsen - 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 - 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 - by Anne C. Shreffler
Edvard Grieg: - Diaries, Articles, Speeches - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - by Walter Aaron Clark
The World of the Bach Cantatas - Early Sacred 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 - 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 DohnanyModern Composers - by Wendy Thompson
Tippett on Music - by Meirion Bowen
Music From the Middle Ages Through the 20th Century - by Carmelo P. Comberiati, Matthew C. Steel
Musical portraits;: Interpretations of twenty modern composers - by Paul Rosenfeld
Camille Saint-Saens - 1835-1921: 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 - by Walter Aaron Clark
The World of the Bach Cantatas - Early Sacred Cantatas .-. by Johann Sebastian Bach, Christoph Wolff
Alban Berg : A Guide to Research .-. 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 .-. by Howard Pollack
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