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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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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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Ruth Crawford Seeger   -   A Composer's Search for American Music   -   by Judith Tick

Vaughan 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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Composer Books:  03
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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   -   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 Dohnany

Modern 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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