Category:  Arts & Literature
Composers & Musicians, Classical - General

Johannes Brahms : A Biography
Jan Swafford / Knopf / October 1997

Chopin in Paris : The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer
Tad Szulc / Scribner / April 1998

Mozart : A Life
Maynard Solomon / Harperperennial Library / February 1996

Beethoven
Maynard Solomon / Schirmer Books / September 1998

Mahler : A Biography
Jonathan Carr / Overlook Press / December 1997

Memoirs : Sir Georg Solti
Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs / Knopf / November 1997

Testimony : The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich, et al / Proscenium Pub / October 1984

Silence
John Cage / Wesleyan Univ Pr / September 1973

The New Bach Reader : A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents
Hans T. David(Preface), et al / W.W. Norton & Company / April 1998

Gustav Mahler : The Symphonies
Constantin Floros, et al / Amadeus Pr / February 1997

Shostakovich : A Life Remembered
Elizabeth Wilson / Princeton Univ Pr / September 1995

Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, et al / Dover Pubns / September 1972

Fritz Kreisler : Love's Sorrow, Love's Joy
Amy Biancolli, Amy Blancolli / Amadeus Pr / October 1998

The Last Prodigy : A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Brendan G. Carroll / Amadeus Pr / October 1997

Arvo Part (Oxford Studies of Composers (Paper))
Paul Hillier / Oxford Univ Press / June 1997

Johannes Brahms : Life and Letters
Johannes Brahms, et al / Oxford Univ Press / February 1998

Heart at Fire's Center : The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
Steven C. Smith / Univ California Press / June 1991

Richard Wagner : The Man, His Mind and His Music
Robert W. Gutman / Harcourt Brace / July 1990

Nietzsche and Wagner : A Lesson in Subjugation
Joachim Kohler, Ronald Taylor (Translator) / Yale Univ Pr / December 1998

Beethoven His Spiritual Development
J. W. N. Sullivan / Random House (Paper) / April 1960

Beethoven
William Kinderman / Univ California Press / November 1997

J. S. Bach
Albert Schweitzer, et al / Dover Pubns / June 1967

The Compleat Mozart : A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Neal Zaslaw, William Cowdery (Editor) / W.W. Norton & Company / February 1991

Chopin : Pianist and Teacher : As Seen by His Pupils
Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, et al / Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt) / December 1989

Minimalists (20th Century Composers)
K. Robert Schwarz, K. Robert Schwartz / Phaidon Press Inc. / July 1996

Schubert : The Music and the Man
Brian Newbould / Univ California Press / March 1997

Robert Schumann : Herald of a 'New Poetic Age'
John Daverio / Oxford Univ Press / April 1997

The Life of Mahler (Musical Lives)
Peter Franklin / Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) / May 1997

Beethoven : His Life, Work and World
H.C. Robbins Landon, H. C. Robbins Landom / Thames & Hudson / April 1993

Bach (Master Musicians Series)
Malcolm Boyd / Simon & Schuster / May 1997

Glenn Gould : Music & Mind
Geoffrey Payzant / Key Porter Books / March 1997

The Great Composer As Teacher and Student : Theory and Practice of Composition
Alfred Mann / Dover Pubns / December 1994

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : The Life and Work of an American Composer 1867-1944
Adrienne Fried Block / Oxford Univ Press / December 1998

J. S. Bach
Albert Schweitzer, et al / Dover Pubns / June 1967

Franz Liszt : The Weimar Years, 1848-1861
Alan Walker / Cornell Univ Pr / November 1993

Franz Liszt : The Final Years, 1861-1886
Alan Walker / Cornell Univ Pr / December 1997

Beethoven's Letters
Ludwig Van Beethoven, et al / Dover Pubns / June 1972

Aspects of Wagner
Bryan Magee / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / October 1988

The Music of Elliott Carter
David Schiff, Elliott Carter / Cornell Univ Pr / November 1998

Charles Ives : A Life With Music
Jan Swafford / W.W. Norton & Company / January 1998

Memoirs of Hector Berlioz : From 1803 to 1865, Comprising His Travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England
Hector Berlioz, Ernest Newman / Dover Pubns / January 1990

Francis Poulenc (20th-Century Composers)
Benjamin Ivry / Phaidon Press Inc. / October 1996

Music by Philip Glass
Philip Glass, Robert T. Jones (Editor) / Da Capo Pr / July 1995

Writings on Glass : Essays, Interviews, Criticism
Richard Kostelanetz(Editor), et al / Schirmer Books / March 1997

Priest of Music : The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos
William R. Trotter / Amadeus Pr / October 1995

Thayer's Life of Beethoven
Alexander Wheelock Thayer, et al / Princeton Univ Pr / July 1995

Scriabin, a Biography
Faubion Bowers / Dover Pubns / August 1996

Wagner
Barry Millington / Princeton Univ Pr / December 1992

The Life of Mozart (Musical Lives)
John Rosselli / Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) / May 1998

Clara Schumann : The Artist and the Woman
Nancy B. Reich / Cornell Univ Pr / December 1990

Alfred Schnittke (20Th-Century Composers)
Alexander Ivashkin / Phaidon Press Inc. / October 1996

Thayer's Life of Beethoven
Alexander Wheelock Thayer, et al / Princeton Univ Pr / July 1995

Beethoven As I Knew Him
Anton Felix Schindler, et al / Dover Pubns / September 1996

Sergei Rachmaninov : An Essential Guide to His Life and Works (Classic Fm Lifelines Series)
Julian Haylock / Trafalgar Square / May 1997

Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
Alan Walker / Cornell Univ Pr / April 1988

Lou Harrison : Composing a World
Leta E. Miller, et al / Oxford Univ Press / July 1998

Bamboula! : The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
S. Frederick Starr / Oxford Univ Press / December 1994

Charles Ives : A Life With Music
Jan Swafford / W.W. Norton & Company / September 1996

Bach (Everyman's Library. Emi Classics Music Companions)
Peter Washington / Knopf / September 1997

My Life
Richard Wagner, et al / Da Capo Pr / September 1992

Verdi; A Biography
Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Andrew Porter / Oxford University Press / December 1996

Antonio Vivaldi : The Red Priest of Venice
Karl Heller, David Marinelli (Translator) / Amadeus Pr / April 1997

Handel
Christopher Hogwood / Thames & Hudson / February 1996

Franz Liszt : The Final Years 1861-1886 (Vol 3 (3rd of A 3 Vol Set))
Alan Walker / Knopf / June 1996

Three Great Orchestral Works in Full Score
Claude Debussy / Dover Pubns / May 1983

Bach : Essays on His Life and Music
Christoph Wolff / Harvard Univ Pr / April 1994

Johann Sebastian Bach : His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750 (Dover Books on Music, Music History) [UNABRIDGED]
Philipp Spitta, et al / Dover Pubns / January 1993

Beethoven Letters Journals and Conversations
Michael Hamburger(Editor), Ludwig Van Beethoven / Thames & Hudson / August 1992

The New Grove Bach Family (The New Grove)
Christoph Wollf, et al / W.W. Norton & Company / November 1997

Conversations With Iannis Xenakis
Balint Andras Varga / Faber & Faber / December 1996

The New Grove Beethoven (The New Grove)
Joseph Kerman(Preface), Alan Tyson (Preface) / W.W. Norton & Company / November 1997

A Pianist's Landscape
Carol Montparker / Amadeus Pr / September 1998

Mozart : From Child Prodigy to Tragic Hero (Discoveries)
Michel Parouty, Celia Skrine (Translator) / Harry N Abrams (Pap) / September 1993

Virgil Thomson : Composer on the Aisle
Anthony Tommasini / W.W. Norton & Company / June 1997