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• 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)

• Johannes Brahms; the Herzogenberg correspondence (E.P. Dutton and Company, 1909), by Johannes Brahms, Hannah Bryant, Max Kalbeck, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, Elisabeth Herzogenberg, and Heinrich von Herzogenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familienbriefe von Richard Wagner, 1832-1874. (A. Duncker, 1907), by Richard Wagner and Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Briefe an Pauline Wiesel (F.A. Brockhaus, 1865), by Prince of Prussia Louis Ferdinand, Alexander Büchner, and Pauline Wiesel (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Welche Einflüsse hatte die Wiederbelebung der älteren Musik im 19. Jahrhundert auf die deutschen Komponisten? (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900), by Richard Hohenemser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unsere deutschen Meister : Bach, Mozart, Beethoven Wagner. (F. Bruckmann, 1901), by Friedrich von Hausegger and Rudolf Louis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsche Tondichter von Sebastian Bach bis auf die gegenwart : Vorträge, gehalten im Wintersemester von 1870 auf 1871, an dem ... Victoria-lyceum zu Berlin (R. Oppenheim, 1879), by Emil Naumann (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)
• Deutsche Tonmeister: biographische Erzählungen und Charakterbilder, der musikalischen Judgend gewidmet (Alphons Dürr, 1878), by Joseph Stieler, Paul Thumann, C. Offterdinger, Woldemar Friedrich, Wilhelm Claudius, and Hugo Bürkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des concerts populaires de musique classique (Castel, 1864), by A. Elwart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wagner, his musical theories (s.n.], 1873), by Reid Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great German composers. (D. Appleton and company, 1884), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great German composers, Bach to Dvôrak (D. Appleton and company, 1899), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche Tondichter (Verlagsanstalt für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1887), by Eduard Hanslick and Carl Jäger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus dem Leben deutscher Musiker; Biographien der Grossmeister deutscher Tonkunst für jung und alt. (Wollermann, 1920), by Elsbeth Friedrichs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Reinhard Keiser in seinen Opern : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der frühen deutschen Oper (H. Leichtentritt, 1901), by Hugo Leichtentritt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Schumann. (J. M. Dent & Co., 1903), by Annie W. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Karl Friedrich Zelter und der deutsche Ma nnergesang (Schweighauserische Buchdruckerei, 1862), by Ludwig Sieber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die deutsche Gluck-Literatur : (Christoph Willibald ritter v. Gluck, 1714-1787) (C. Koch, 1914), by Stephan Wortsmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Johann David Heinichen als Dramatischer Komponist: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Oper (dissertation in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1916), by Richard Tanner
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• 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
• Brahms, the man and his music (AMS Press, 1978), by E. Markham Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Richard Wagner (Da Capo Press, 1977), by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp and William Ashton Ellis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mein Leben (F. Bruckmann a.-G., 1911), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hugo Wolf (Schuster & Loeffler, 1903), by Ernst Decsey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gluck / biographie critique, illustree de douze reproductions hors texte. (H. Laurens, 1906), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mein Leben. (Bruckmann, 1914), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (M. Rascher, 1918), by Romain Rolland and Lisbeth Langnese-Hug (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Weber (S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881), by Julius Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robert Schumann, his life and work. (K. Paul, Tench, Trubner, 1925), by Herbert Bedford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Leben Richard Wagners (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1894), by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johann Sebastian Bach : ein kurzes lebensbild. (W. Baensch, 1885), by E. Heinrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bach : sein leben und seine werke (Schuster & Loeffler, 1910), by André Pirro and Bernhard Engelke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven, su vida y sus obras (Casa Editorial Hispano-Americana, 1912), by Emiliano Ramírez Angel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Heroen der deutschen Tonkunst : für die musikstudierende Jugend, sowie für alle Freunde der Tonkunst. (G. Wigand, 1890), by Martin Rabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus Hoffmann's Leben und Nachlass (F. Dümmler, 1823), by Julius Eduard Hitzig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meister der Tonkunst : Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Weber, Schumann, Mendelssohn. (W. Spemann, 1903), by Carl Reinecke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unsere deutschen Meister (F. Bruckmann, 1901), by Friedrich von Hausegger and Rudolf Louis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mendelson, su vida y sus obras (Casa Editorial Hispano-Americana, 1912), by F. Iribarne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wágner : su vida y sus obras (Casa Editorial Hispano-Americana, 1914), by Francisco Vera (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mendelssohn (Schuster & Loeffler, 1922), by Walter G. Armando (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Brahms / With illustrations and portraits. (J.M. Dent ;, 1905), by J. Lawrence Erb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johann Joseph Abert : (1832-1915) : seine Leben und seine Werke (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1916), by Hermann Abert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ferruccio Busoni (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1916), by Hugo Leichtentritt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vie de Beethoven. (Hachette et cie, 1914), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bruckner : versuch eines lebens (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1922), by Ernst Decsey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Weber (S. Low, Marston and company (limited), 1896), by Julius Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gluck : su vida y sus obras. (Casa editorial franco-ibero-americana, 1927), by Antonio Muñoz Pérez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johann Sebastian Bach : ein bild seines lebens, zusammengestellt (Musarion Verlag ;, 1924), by Walter G. Armando (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven. (Velhagen & Klasings, 1913), by Gustav Thormälius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven (F. Alcan, 1907), by Jean Chantavoine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives of celebrated musicians : Beethoven (R. Cocks & co., 1800), by George Hogarth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Beethoven (A.C. McClurg, 1896), by Ludwig Nohl and John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beethoven. (Quelle & Meyer, 1913), by Hermann Ludwig von der Pfordten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven (Quelle & Meyer, 1907), by Hermann Ludwig von der Pfordten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig Beethoven (M. Rascher, 1918), by Romain Rolland and Lisbeth Langnese-Hug (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (Grosset and Dunlap, 1951), by Pitts Sanborn and Herbert F. Peyser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carl Heinrich Graun als opernkomponist. (Druck von R. Boll, 1899), by Albert Mayer-Reinach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hermann Goetz' Leben und sein Schaffen auf dem Gebiet de Oper. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1916), by Eduard Kreuzhage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Behandlung des Rezitativs in Glucks italienischen Reformopern. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1919), by Ralph Meyer (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)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (Velhagen & Klasing, 1925), by Karl Hasse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach : sein Leben und seine Werke, mit thematischem Verzeichnis seiner Kompositionen und zwei Bildern (C. F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1913), by Martin Falck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven (S. Low, Marston and Company, 1903), by H. A. Rudall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven : (sugestiones). (Imprenta moderna, 1927), by José de Hinjos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig van Beethoven : Zur hundertjährigen geburtstagsfeier : Vortrag, gehalten im Wissenschaftlichen verein zu Berlin am '.januar 1871 (C.G. Lüderitz (A. Charisius), 1871), by Emil Naumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constanz Berneker (P. Lehsten, 1909), by Victor Laudien and Konrad Burdach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Brahms (F. Alcan, 1921), by Paul Charles René Landormy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johannes Brahms : Mit 64 Abbildungen und einem farbigen Umschlagbild. (Velhagen & Klasing, 1922), by Ludwig Misch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Robert Franz / Neubearbeiteter einzeldruck aus den Musikalischen studienköpfen. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911), by Ida Maria Lipsius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Weber : biographie critique illustrée de douze reproductions hors texte (H. Laurens, 1925), by Georges Servières (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig II und Richard Wagner : 1864-1865 (C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1903), by Sebastian Röckl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carl Maria von Weber (Quelle & Meyer, 1919), by Hermann Ludwig von der Pfordten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dokumentation zu Karl Friedrich Christian Fasch, 1736-1800 (Die Forschungsstätte, 1983), by Carl Friedrich Zelter, Eitelfriedrich Thom, and Kultur- und Forschungsstätte Michaelstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, ein Gesammtbild seines Lebens und Wirkens : mit dem Portrait und einem facsimilirten Briefe Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's (F.E.C. Leuckart, 1886), by Wilhelm Adolf Lampadius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bach (J. M. Dent & co.;, 1900), by C. F. Abdy Williams and Frederick James Crowest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wagner (J. M. Dent & co.;, 1899), by Charles A. Lidgey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• J.S. Bach (A. & C. Black, 1923), by Albert Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and works of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1926), by Victoria Ressmeyer Sirota (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carl Maria von Weber (AMS Press, 1980), by Julius Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great German composers. (D. Appleton, 1879), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus meinem Leben (Behr, 1870), by Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Begegnungen auf meinem Lebensweg : Plaudereinen, Erinnerungen und Eindrücke aus jungen Jahren (Hugo Heller, 1916), by Robert Fischhof (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven (Aschendorff, 1871), by Anton Schindler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wagner and his works : the story of his life, with critical comments (H. Grevel, 1916), by Henry Theophilus Finck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johann Sebastian Bach ; the story of the development of a great personality (Putnam's, 1909), by C. Hubert H. Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oskar Fried, sein Werden und Schaffen ("Harmonie," verlagsgesellschaft für Literatur und Kunst, 1907), by Paul Bekker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven (Bard, Marquardt, 1907), by August Göllerich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and works of Robert Schumann. (G. Bell and Sons, 1886), by August Reissmann and Abby Langdon Alger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robert Franz : Gerspräche aus zehn jahren (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1895), by Wilhelm Waldmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robert Volkmann in seiner Bedeutung als Instrumental- und Vocal-Componist (Otto Wigand, 1875), by Bernhard Vogel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Brahms : sein Lebensgang vom Jahre 1833-1862 (Wiener Verlag, 1903), by Max Kalbeck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Personal recollections of Wagner (Schirmer, 1915), by Angelo Neumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gustav Merkel : königl. sächs. Hoforganist : ein Bild seines Lebens und Wirkens (J. Rieter-Biedermann, 1886), by Paul Janssen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wagner, eine Biographie. (Schuster & Loeffler, 1921), by Julius Kapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El wagnerismo en Madrid (Asociacio n Wagneriana de Madrid, 1912), by F. Bleu, Valenti n Ari n y Goenaga, and Asociacio n Wagneriana de Madrid (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven, élete és művei (Pantheon, 1921), by Viktor Papp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bach (Dent ;, 1910), by C. F. Abdy Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• August Bungert (August Stahl, 1915), by Max Chop (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)
• Spohr (P. Reclam jun., 1884), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meyerbeer (P. Reclam jun., 1890), by Adolf Kohut (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wagner (P. Reclam, in the 1880s), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louis Anseaume und das französische Singspiel. (Seele, 1909), by Paul Wechsler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Attilio Ariosti in Berlin : (1697-1793) : Ein beitrag zur geschichte der musik am hofe könig Friedrichs I. von Preussen. (Druck von Giesecke & Devrient, 1905), by Alfred Leopold Ebert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sebastian Bach und die Tonkunst des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts : Für den Druck an einen Stellen geändert und erweitert. (Poeschel & Trepte, 1902), by Arthur Prüfer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Beethoven (W. Reeves, 1893), by Ludwig Nohl and John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beethoven-Biographie (Schuster & Loeffler, 1909), by Anton Schindler and Alfred Christlieb Kalischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Robert Schumann (Bard, Marquardt, 1906), by Ernst Wolff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johannes Brahms als mensch, lehrer und künstler (N.G. Elwert, 1905), by Gustav Jenner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ferruccio Busoni : der versuch eines porträts (E. P. Tal & co., 1922), by Gisella Selden-Goth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Liszt : eine Biographie (Schuster & Loeffler, 1911), by Julius Kapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jacques Offenbach (Marquardt & Co., 1909), by Paul Bekker and Richard Strauss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carl Maria von Weber : the life of an artist (O. Ditson, 1865), by Max Maria Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Brahms (Deutsche Brahms-geselischaft m. b. h., 1908), by Max Kalbeck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carl Maria von Weber, 1786-1826 (London : S. Low, Marstow, [between 1920 and 1929?], 1920), by Julius Benedict (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vie de Beethoven (in French), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Schumann (in German), by Richard Batka (Gutenberg ebook)
• Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the Organ, by André Pirro, trans. by Wallace Goodrich, contrib. by Charles-Marie Widor (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wagner as Man & Artist, by Ernest Newman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2), by Florence May (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 1 of 2), by Florence May (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life of Beethoven: Including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works, by Anton Schindler, ed. by Ignaz Moscheles (Gutenberg ebook)
• Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work, by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, trans. by Charles Sanford Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sketch of Handel and Beethoven: Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864, by Thomas Hanly Ball (Gutenberg ebook)

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