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• 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
  • Volume 1 (1783-1814): multiple formats at archive.org`
  • Volume 2 (1815-1822): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (1823-1827): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Addenda): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (Addenda and Explanations): multiple formats at archive.org
• Beethoven letters in America : fac-similes with commentary by O.G. Sonneck. (Beethoven Association, 1927), by Ludwig van Beethoven, O. G. Sonneck, and New York Beethoven Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hector Berlioz, selections from his letters, and aesthetic, humorous, and satirical writings (H. Holt and company, 1879), by Hector Berlioz and William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtungen von Richard Wagner. (E. W. Fritzsch, 1871), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beethovens persönliche aufzeichnungen (Insel-verlag, 1918), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Albert Leitzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven's Leben. (H. Markgraf, 1864), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus Beethoven's Leben (Abel & Müller, 1880), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weyses minde : vaesentlig efter utrykte breve (V. Pio (P. Branner), 1916), by Carl Thrane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Briefe (Insel-Verlag, 1909), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Albert Leitzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bayreuther Briefe (1871-1883). 2 Aufl. (Schuster & Loeffler, 1907), by Richard Wagner and Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Briefwechsel zwischen Wagner und Liszt. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1900), by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Art life and theories of Richard Wagner (Henry Holt, 1889), by Richard Wagner, William Foster Apthorp, and Edward L. Burlingame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Brahms im briefwechsel mit J. O. Grimm (Verlag der Deutschen Brahms-gesellschaft m.b.h., 1908), by Johannes Brahms, Richard Barth, and Julius Otto Grimm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig van Beethovens sämtliche Briefe und Aufzeichnungen. (C.W. Stern, 1907), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Fritz Prelinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethovens Briefe (Insel-Verlag, 1917), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Albert Leitzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The letters of Robert Schumann (E.P. Dutton, 1907), by Robert Schumann, Hannah Bryant, and Karl Storck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Franz Liszt's Briefe an Carl Gille (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1903), by Franz Liszt and Adolf Stern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Franz Liszt's Briefe (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1893), by Franz Liszt and La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Perepiska M.A. Balakireva s V.V. Stasovym (T/D Lemberg and Lekae, 1917), by Miliĭ Alekseevich Balakirev, Varavara Dmitrievna Stasova Komarova, and V. V. Stasov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethovens samtliche briefe (Schuster & Loeffler, 1906), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Alfred Christlieb Kalischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Briefwechsel zwischen Wagner und Liszt. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1900), by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Briefe an August Röckel (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1903), by Richard Wagner and La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Mozarts Briefe (Greiner und Pfeiffer, 1906), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Karl Storck, and Biblioteca Mozartiana Eric Offenbacher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Guillaume Lekeu, sa correspondance, sa vie & son oeuvre (Belgique Printing Co., 1923), by M. Lorrain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guillaume Lekeu, sa correspondence, sa vie & son œuvre (Printing Co., 1923), by Guillaume Lekeu and M. Lorrain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868; avec une notice biographique par Daniel Bernard. (Calmann Lévy, 1896), by Hector Berlioz and Daniel Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres inédites de Hector Berlioz à Thomas Gounet (Imprimerie Allier frères, 1903), by Hector Berlioz, G. Allix, and Léon Michoud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz-1819-1863 (Calmann-Lévy, 1879), by Hector Berlioz and Daniel Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frederic Chopin : his life and letters (Scribner ;, 1906), by Maurycy Karasowski and Emily Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lettres à son éditeur (Durand, 1927), by Claude Debussy and Jacques Durand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868 (in French), by Hector Berlioz, ed. by Daniel Bernard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lettres à un ami, 1865-1872 (in French), by Georges Bizet, contrib. by Edmond Galabert (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• Neue Beethovenbriefe (Schuster & Loeffler, 1902), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Alfred Christlieb Kalischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters of distinguished musicians: Gluck, Haydn, P. E. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1867), by Ludwig Nohl, Grace Wallace, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Carl Maria von Weber, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Joseph Haydn, and Christoph Willibald Gluck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gesammelte Briefe (G. Bosse, 1913), by Albert Lortzing and Georg Richard Kruse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bayreuth letters of Richard Wagner (Small, Maynard, 1912), by Richard Wagner and Caroline V. Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jugendbriefe (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1885), by Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus Richard Wagners pariser Zeit. Aufsätze und Kunst-Berichte des Meisters aus Paris 1841. (Deutsche Bücherei, 1907), by Richard Wagner and Richard Sternfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Glucks Briefe an Franz Kruthoffer (Strache, 1927), by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Georg Kinsky, and Franz Kruthoffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Briefe von Beethoven an Marie Gräfin Erdödy, geb. Gräfin Niszky und Mag. Brauchle (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1867), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Alfred Schöne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Wagner an Minna Wagner (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1908), by Richard Wagner and Minna Planer Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Nietzsche-Wagner correspondence (Duckworth, 1922), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aus meinem Leben (Behr, 1870), by Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Brahms Briefe an P.J. Simrock und Fritz Simrock (Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft m.b.H., 1917), by Johannes Brahms, Max Kalbeck, Fritz Simrock, and Peter Joseph Simrock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt. (London, H. Grevel, l888., 1888), by Richard Wagner, Francis Hueffer, and Franz Liszt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe (G. Westermann, 1900), by Carl Maria von Weber, Hinrich Lichtenstein, and Ernst Rudorff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Richard Wagner an Mathilde Wesendonk : Tagebuchblätter und Briefe, 1853-1871. (A. Duncker, 1909), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johannes Brahms Briefe an Joseph Viktor Widmann, Ellen und Ferdinand Detter, Adolf Schubring (Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1915), by Johannes Brahms, Ferdinand Vetter, Ellen Vetter, Max Kalbeck, Adolf Schubring, and Joseph Viktor Widmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über den ritter Gluck und seine werke : Brief von ihm und andern berühmten männern seiner zeit : Eine historisch-kritische beurtheilung seiner opern-musik (Voss, 1837), by Christoph Willibald Gluck, J. G. Siegmeyer, and F. Arnaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Brahms, the Herzogenberg correspondence (J. Murray, 1909), by Johannes Brahms, Hannah Bryant, Max Kalbeck, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, and Heinrich von Herzogenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Briefe (G. Westermann, 1900), by Carl Maria von Weber and Ernst Rudorff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847, by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, ed. by Karl Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, trans. by Grace Wallace, contrib. by Julius Rietz (Gutenberg ebook)

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