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• Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lully (AMS Press, 1978), by Lionel de La Laurencie (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to French music (C. Palmer & Hayward, 1917), by G. Jean-Aubry and Percy A. Scholes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• César Franck. (F. Alcan, 1910), by Vincent d' Indy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Berlioz (F. Alcan, 1923), by Paul-Marie Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin / Biographie critique, illustrée de douze reproductions hors texte. (H. Laurens, 1906), by Élie Émile Gabriel Poirée (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gabriel Fauré (F. Alcan, 1927), by Charles Kœchlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georges Bizet (P. Reclam jun., 1890), by Paul Voss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• André Cardinal Destouches : (1672-1749) : Ein beitrag zur französischen operngeschichte ([publisher not identified], 1909), by Kurt Dulle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• J.S. bach (F. Alcan, 1907), by André Pirro (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Italian and French composers. (D. Appleton, 1878), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Debussy : (1862-1918). (Plon, 1927), by Léon Vallas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gabriel Fauré et son œuvre. (Durand, 1914), by Louis Vuillemin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Louis Aubert : son oeuvre (A. Durand, 1921), by Louis Vuillemin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La musique française moderne : quinze musiciens français : 12 portraits -- 15 autographes. (Delagrave, 1924), by André Cœuroy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musiciens français d'aujourd'hui : notices biographiques, suivies d'un essai de bibliographie et accompagnées d'un autographe musical. (Mercvre de France, 1921), by Jean Poueigh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musiker von heute. (G. Müller, 1927), by Romain Roland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grétry et son époque : (avec tirés à part) (Imprimerie Bénard, 1918), by J. Hogge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue illustré : rédigé par l'œuvre des artistes et précédé d'une étude (Bérnard, 1913), by Belgium) Museé Grétry (Liège and H. Fierens-Gevaert (page images at HathiTrust)
• La jeunesse de Grétry et ses débuts a Paris. (Imprimerie Jacques et Demontrond, 1920), by Pauline Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin. (Schuster & Loeffler, 1922), by Adolf Weissmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Debussy. (Kruseman, 1926), by Rient van Santen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Célebration du centenaire de César Franck : 1822-1922. (s.n., 1922), by Conservatoire royal de musique de Liège (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hérold, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Au Ménestrel, Heugel, 1868), by B. Jouvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• My recollections (1848-1912). (AMS Press, 1971), by Jules Massenet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gabriel Fauré (Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Français, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Boieldieu : notes et fragments inédits (Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1883), by Emile Duval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'un musicien (M. Lévy frères, 1857), by Adolphe Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz-1819-1863 (Calmann-Lévy, 1879), by Hector Berlioz and Daniel Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Berlioz (G. Havard, 1856), by Eugène de Mirecourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georges Bizet : sa vie et ses œuvres. (C. Delagrave, 1890), by Camille Bellaigue (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)
• Gounod : (1818-1893) sa vie et ses œuvres : d'après des documents inédits : Ouvrage précédé d'une étude sur la famille du compositeur au XVIIIe siècle, et suivi d'une bibliographie musicale et littéraire, d'une iconographie, d'actes d'état-civil, de pièces d'archives, etc. (C. Delagrave, 1911), by J.-G. Prod'homme and Arthur Dandelot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frédéric Chopin : de l'interprétation de ses œuvres (F. Mackar, 1880), by Jan Kleczyński (page images at HathiTrust)
• Claude Debussy. (Les bibliophiles fantaisistes, 1909), by Louis Laloy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lettres à son éditeur (Durand, 1927), by Claude Debussy and Jacques Durand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself in His Letters and Memoirs, by Hector Berlioz, trans. by Katharine F. Boult (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mes souvenirs (1848-1912) (in French), by Jules Massenet (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Recollections, by Jules Massenet, trans. by H. Villiers Barnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Charles Gounod: Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music, by Charles Gounod, trans. by W. Hely Hutchinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868 (in French), by Hector Berlioz, ed. by Daniel Bernard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mémoires de Hector Berlioz: comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865 (in French), by Hector Berlioz (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mémoires d'un artiste (in French), by Charles Gounod (Gutenberg ebook)

• Chopin (Schuster & Loeffler, 1912), by Adolf Weissmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notices sur quelques musiciens rouennais (Boyvin, Broche, Exaudet, Chapelle, etc.) (F. Le Blanc-Hardel, 1885), by Jules Carlez (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Modern French music (Houghton Mifflin company, 1924), by Edward Burlingame Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études (C. Aveline, 1927), by Darius Milhaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Actes d'état civil de musiciens insinués au Châtelet de Paris (1530-1650) (L. M. Fortin, 1907), by Jules Ecorcheville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes d'un librettiste. Musique contemporaine (Calmann Lévy, 1891), by Louis Gallet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The earlier French musicians (1632-1834) (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1917), by Mary Hargrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les musiciens et compositeurs français : précédés d'un Essai sur l'histoire de la musique en France avant le XVIIe siècle. (Lecène, Oudin et Cie, 1892), by Alfred Hannedouche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern French music (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1924), by Edward Burlingame Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Italian and French composers, Palestrina to Massenet. (Appleton, 1914), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great composers, German, French, and Italian. (W. Scott, 1887), by George T. Ferris and Elizabeth A. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la chanson Stéphanoise et Forézienne depuis son origine jusqu'a notre époque (Union Typographique, 1906), by Jean François Gonon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Italian and French composers. (D. Appleton and company, 1895), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Italian and French composers (Appleton, 1883), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Italian and French composers, Palestrina to Massenet (D. Appleton and company, 1903), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey (Gutenberg ebook)

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