Composers
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Composers -- Austria
- Composers -- Biography
- Composers -- Correspondence
- Composers -- England
- Composers -- Fiction
- Composers -- France
- Composers -- Germany
- Composers -- Great Britain
- Composers -- Hungary
- Composers -- Interviews
- Composers -- Israel
- Composers -- Juvenile literature
- Composers -- United States
- Composers, Black
- Music -- Bio-bibliography
- Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 1829-1869
- Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
- Heinichen, Johann David, 1683-1729
- Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924
- Horst, Louis
- Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
- Songwriters
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Great Musicians (London: E. Grant Richards, 1908), by Ernest Oldmeadow (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Haydn, by J. Cuthbert Hadden (Gutenberg text)
- Beethoven's Letters (1790-1826) From the Collection of Dr. Ludwig Nohl; Also His Letters to the Archduke Rudolph, Cardinal-Archbishop of Olmütz, K. W., From the Collection of Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, by Ludwig van Beethoven, trans. by Grace Wallace
- Haydn, by J. Cuthbert Hadden (Gutenberg text)
- Haydn, by John F. Runciman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Curiosités Musicales: Notes, Analyses, Interprétation de Certaines Particularités Contenues dans les Oeuvres des Grands Maîtres (in French; Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et cie., 1873), by Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez (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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions, by Catherine Parsons Smith (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Ludwig van Beethovens Sämtliche Briefe und Aufzeichnungen (in German; Vienna and Leipzig: C.W. Stern, 1907-1911), by Ludwig van Beethoven, ed. by Fritz Prelinger
- 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)
- Letters of Franz Liszt, by Franz Liszt, trans. by Constance Bache
- 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
- Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African, in Two Volumes; To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life (biographical memoirs by Jekyll; 2 volumes; London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1782), by Ignatius Sancho, contrib. by Joseph Jekyll
- Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African; To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life (third edition; London: Printed by J. Nichols; and sold by C. Dilly, 1784), by Ignatius Sancho, contrib. by Joseph Jekyll
- Merely Mary Ann (popular edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1913), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
- Johann David Heinichen als Dramatischer Komponist: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Oper (dissertation in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1916), by Richard Tanner
- 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)
- Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1997), by Robert Jay Fleisher (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
- Famous Composers for Young People (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1945), by Gladys Burch and John Wolcott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Famous Composers for Young People (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1939), by Gladys Burch and John Wolcott (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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
- 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)
- Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild (second edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Jansa, 1911), ed. by Friedrich Jansa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (New York: Pub. by Doubleday, Doran and Co. for U.S. School of Music, c1912), ed. by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Musicians- The World's Great Men of Music (also published as "Story-Lives of Master Musicians"; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1922), by Harriette Brower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians, by John F. Runciman (Gutenberg text)
- Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Art, Literature, and the Drama (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Literature and Art (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Simon Molitor und die Wiener Gitarristik (um 1800) (in Germn; Vienna: A. Goll, ca. 1920), by Josef Zuth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Belgian Music (second edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1949), by Charles Leirens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hugo Riemanns Musik-Lexikon (in German; Berlin: M. Hesses Verlag, 1919), by Hugo Riemann, ed. by Alfred Einstein
- Musical Memories (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1897), by Alice M. Diehl (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Aneddoti Piacevoli e Interessanti Occorsi Nella Vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari da Roveredo (in Italian; Palermo: R. Sandron, ca. 1920), by G. G. Ferrari, ed. by Salvatore Di Giacomo (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Aneddoti Piacevoli e Interessanti Occorsi Nella Vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari da Roveredo, Opereta Scritta da Lui Medesimo (2 volumes in Italian; London: Presso l'autore, 1830), by G. G. Ferrari (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Girlhood of Clara Schumann (Clara Wieck and Her Time) (London: Edward Arnold, 1912), by Florence May (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Aventures et Voyages (in French; Nice: Typ. S. C. Cauvin, 1876), by P. Seligmann (page images at HathiTrust)
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