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• Carl Maria von Weber: The Life of an Artist (abridged translation in 2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1865), by Max Maria Weber, trans. by J. Palgrave Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johann David Heinichen als Dramatischer Komponist: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Oper (dissertation in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1916), by Richard Tanner
  • PDF at Rochester
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750 (3 volumes; London: Novello and Co.; New York: H. W. Gray, 1899), by Philipp Spitta, trans. by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller-Maitland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Briefe an August Röckel (in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1894), by Richard Wagner, ed. by La Mara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe an August Röckel (second edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1903), by Richard Wagner, ed. by La Mara (page images in Germany)
• The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Richard Wagner, ed. by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, trans. by Caroline V. Kerr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Johann David Heinichen als Dramatischer Komponist: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Oper (dissertation in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1916), by Richard Tanner
  • PDF at Rochester
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Carl Maria von Weber: The Life of an Artist (abridged translation in 2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1865), by Max Maria Weber, trans. by J. Palgrave Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mozart, Weber and Wagner, With Various Essays on Musical Subjects (London: W. Reeves, ca. 1918), by Hector Berlioz, trans. by Edwin Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, by Rupert Hughes
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Haydn, by J. Cuthbert Hadden (Gutenberg text)

• Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound (1989), by Eric Tamm (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Neil Gould (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Louis Horst: Musician in a Dancer's World (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Janet Mansfield Soares (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary American Composers (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1900), by Rupert Hughes (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and MIDI)
• Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by Octavia Hensel, His Friend and Pupil (Boston: O. Ditson and Co.; New York: C. H. Ditson and Co., c1870), by Mary Alice Seymour
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions, by Catherine Parsons Smith (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Hitler's Heirs (New York: Pyramid Books, 1961), by Paul Meskil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Douglas G. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gottfried Semper: In Search of Architecture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1984), by Wolfgang Herrmann (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Lovis Corinth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Horst Uhr (HTML at UC Press)

• Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Wilfried Feldenkirchen, trans. by Bernhard Steinebrunner (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Life of Martin Boos, a Roman Catholic Clergyman in Germany (abridged and adapted from an autobiography edited by Gossner; Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d.), contrib. by Martin Boos and Johannes Gossner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Alan J. Rocke (HTML at UC Press)

• The Life of Martin Boos, a Roman Catholic Clergyman in Germany (abridged and adapted from an autobiography edited by Gossner; Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d.), contrib. by Martin Boos and Johannes Gossner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, ca. 2013), by Lionel Gossman
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google

• Froebel and Education by Self-Activity (London: William Heinemann, 1893), by H. Courthope Bowen (PDF files at Roehampton)

• Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Wilfried Feldenkirchen, trans. by Bernhard Steinebrunner (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Der Rote Kampfflieger (in German; Berlin and Vienna: Ullstein und Co., 1917), by Manfred Richthofen
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Red Air Fighter (London: The "Aeroplane" and General Pub. Co., 1918), by Manfred Richthofen, ed. by C. G. Grey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Red Battle Flyer (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1918), by Manfred Richthofen, ed. by C. G. Grey, trans. by J. Ellis Barker
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Red Fighter Pilot (originally published as "The Red Battle Flyer"), by Manfred von Richthofen, trans. by J. Ellis Barker (HTML with commentary at wtj.com)

• Truth to Tell: German Women's Autobiographies and Turn-of-the-Century Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Katharina Gerstenberger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hitler's War, by David John Cawdell Irving (PDF with commentary at fpp.co.uk)

• Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2018), by Noam Zadoff, trans. by Jeffrey Green (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c2001), by Walter Laqueur (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• Selma Metzger Winkler: Her Experience in Nazi Concentration Camp, by Martin A. Winkler (illustrated HTML at remember.org)

• Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Douglas G. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Awakening: One Man's Battle with Darkness (Walden, NY et al: Plough Pub. House, c2014), by Friedrich Zündel (PDF at plough.com)

• The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe: The Life of Luftwaffe Marshall Erhard Milch, by David John Cawdell Irving (PDF with commentary at fpp.co.uk)
• The Trail of the Fox, by David John Cawdell Irving (PDF files with commentary at fpp.co.uk)

• The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, ca. 2013), by Lionel Gossman
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google

• Schlageter (in German; Munich: Verlag der Deutschvolkischen Buchhandlung, 1923), contrib. by Wilhelm Hügenell
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Biographie Franz von Baader's (in German; Leipzig: H. Bethmann, 1857), by Franz von Baader, ed. by Franz Hoffmann
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ecce Homo (Nietzsche's Autobiography) (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Anthony M. Ludovici (page images at Google; US access only)
• Jacob Boehme: His Life and Teaching, or, Studies in Theosophy (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1885), by H. Martensen, trans. by Thomas Rhys Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (London: W. Heinemann, 1914), by Georg Brandes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Discourse on Metaphysics; Correspondence with Arnauld; and Monadology (Chicago: Open Court, 1908), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, trans. by George R. Montgomery, contrib. by Paul Janet (multiple formats at archive.org)

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