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• Russian composers and musicians : a biographical dictionary (The H.W. Wilson company, 1940), by Alexandria Vodarsky-Shiraeff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glinka : biographie critique, illustrée de douze planches hors texte. (H. Laurens, 1911), by M. D. Calvocoressi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An. K. Li︠a︡dov (Izd. popechitelʹnago sovi︠e︡ta dli︠a︡ pooshchrenii︠a︡ russkikh kompozitorov i muzykantov, 1916), by V. G. Valʹter, I. V. Vitolʹ, and Sergeĭ Gorodet︠s︡kiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anatol Alexandrow (Gosizdat, Muzykalʹnyĭ Sektor, 1927), by V. Beli︠a︡ev and Bruno Prochaska (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vospominanii͡a o P. I. Chaĭkovskom (Muzykalʹnai͡a torgovli͡a P. I͡Urgensona, 1896), by N. Kashkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov : ego zhiznʹ i tvorchestvo (Izdanīe "Kont︠s︡ertov A. Ziloti", 1907), by A. V. Ossovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aleksandr Nikolaevich Si͡erov : ego zhizhʹ i muzykalʹnaia di͡ei͡atelʹnostʹ (P. I͡Urgenson, 1904), by N. F. Fendeĭzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My musical life (A. A. Knopf, 1925), by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Carl Van Vechten (page images at HathiTrust)
• A. N. Si͡erov : ego zhiznʹ i muzykalʹnai͡a di͡ei͡atelʹnostʹ ("Obshchestvo Polʹza", 1893), by S. A. Bazunov (page images at HathiTrust)
• A. N. Si︠e︡rov : bibliograficheskiĭ ocherk (P. I︠U︡rgenson, 1890), by V. S. Baskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pisʹma Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Si︠e︡rova k ego sestri︠e︡ S.N. Di︠u︡-Tur : 1845-1861 gg. (Tip. N. Findeĭzena, 1896), by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Serov (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka v Pridvornoĭ kapelli︠a︡] (Tip. Imp. SPB. Teatrov, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glinka (Duffield and company, 1917), by M. Montagu-Nathan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ėduard Frant︠s︡evich Napravnik : k pi︠a︡tidesi︠a︡tili︠e︡tīi︠u︡ ego artisticheskoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti, 1863--10 senti︠a︡bri︠a︡--1913 (Tip. Glav. upr. udi︠e︡lov, 1914), by V. G. Valʹter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tschaikowskij (Deutsche verlags-anstalt, 1927), by Richard Heinrich Stein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A.N. Skri︠a︡bin (Gosudarstvennoe izd-vo, 1925), by Vasiliĭ I︠A︡kovlev and A. B. Golʹdenveĭzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Russkai͡a muzyka : kritiko-istoricheskīĭ ocherk nat͡sīonalʹnoĭ muzykalʹnoĭ shkoly v ei͡a predstaviteli͡akh : Glinka : Dargomyzhskīĭ : Balakirev, Borodin, Rimskīĭ-Korsakov : Musorgskīĭ : Chaĭkovskīĭ : Ki͡ui, Glazunov, Li͡adov i dr. : Si͡erov, Rubinshteĭn i dr. (Tip. I͡U.N. Ėrlikhʹ, 1898), by V. V. Berezovskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• M.I. Glinka, ego zhiznʹ i muzykalʹnai͡a di͡ei͡atelʹnostʹ (Tip. Vysochaĭshe utverzhd. t-va "Obshch. Polʹza", 1892), by S. A. Bazunov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Leben Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky's (P. Jurgenson, 1901), by Modest Chaĭkovskiĭ and Paul Juon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aleksandr Porfirʹevich Borodin : ego zhiznʹ, perepiska i muzykalʹnyi︠a︡ statʹi, 1834-1887. (A.S. Suvorin, 1889), by Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zapiski Mikhaila Ivanovicha Glinki : 1804-1854. (Izd. "Russkoĭ stariny", 1871), by M. I. Glinka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Muzykalʹnye felʹetony i zametki Petra Ilʹicha Chaĭkovskogo (I︠A︡kovlev, 1898), by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and G. A. Larosh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zhiznʹ Petra Ilʹicha Chaĭkovskogo. (P. I︠U︡rgenson, 1901), by Modest Chaĭkovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, ocherk ego zhizni i dei︠a︡telʹnosti (P. I︠U︡rgenson, 1903), by N. F. Fendeĭzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka : ocherk (I︠U︡. Shtauf (I. Fishon), 1885), by V. V. Obolenskiĭ and P. P. Veĭmarn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aleksandr Nikolaevich Si︠e︡rov : ego zhiznʹ i muzykalʹnai︠a︡ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnostʹ (P. I︠U︡rgenson, 1904), by N. F. Fendeĭzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anton Grigorʹevich Rubinshteĭn : ocherk ego zhizni i muzykalʹnoi di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti s 20 portretami i snimkami (P. I︠U︡rgenson, 1907), by N. F. Fendeĭzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nikolaĭ Andreevich Rimskīĭ-Korsakov : ocherk ego zhiznʹ i di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti (P. I︠U︡rgenson, 1908), by V. V. I͡Astrebt͡sev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A.G. Rubinshteĭn : bīograficheskīi ocherk, 1829-1894 g. i muzykalʹnyi︠a︡ lekt︠s︡īi (kurs fortepīannoĭ literatury) 1888-1889 (M.M. Stasi︠u︡levich, 1895), by Sofii︠a︡ T︠S︡ezarevna Kavos-Dekhtereva and Anton Rubinstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• A.G. Rubinshteĭn : ocherk muzykalʹnoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti (P. I︠U︡rgenson, 1886), by V. S. Baskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A.N. Si︠e︡rov : ego zhiznʹ i muzykalʹnai︠a︡ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnostʹ (Tip. "Obshchestv. polʹza", 1893), by S. A. Bazunov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nikolaĭ Andreevich Rimskīĭ-Korsakov : ocherk ego muzykalʹnoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti (V. Besselʹ, 1908), by N. F. Fendeĭzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modest Petrovich Musorgskīĭ, 1839 (16/III)-1881 g. (Kruzhok li︠u︡biteleĭ russkoĭ muzyki, 1906), by Arkadīĭ Kerzin and Kruzhok li︠u︡biteleĭ russkoĭ muzyki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moi vospominanīi͡a o Petri͡e Ilʹichi͡e Chaĭkovskom (u P. I͡Urgensona, 1908), by I. A. Klimenko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tchaikovsky : his life and works : with extracts from his writings, and the diary of his tour abroad in 1888. (Richards, 1900), by Rosa Newmarch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ilʹ͡ia Sa͡ts. (Gos. izd-vo, 1923), by Ilʹi͡a Sat͡s and André Savine Collection (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, by Modest Chaikovskii, trans. by Rosa Newmarch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ma vie musicale (in French), by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, trans. by E. Halpérine-Kaminsky (Gutenberg ebook)

• Bīograficheskīĭ leksikon russkikh kompozitorov i muzykalʹnykh di͡ei͡ateleĭ (Izd. muz. magazina A. Bitnera, 1886), by Aleksandr Ivanovich Rubet͡s (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Aleksandr Porfirʹevich Borodin : ego zhiznʹ, perepiska i muzykalʹnyi︠a︡ statʹi, 1834-1887. (A.S. Suvorin, 1889), by Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tchaikovsky : his life and works : with extracts from his writings, and the diary of his tour abroad in 1888. (Richards, 1900), by Rosa Newmarch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vospominanii︠a︡ I︠U︡rii︠a︡ Arnolʹda (880-04 Moskva : Tipografīi︠a︡ Ė. Lissnera i I︠U︡. Romana, 1892-1893., 1892), by I︠U︡riĭ Karlovich Arnolʹd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pam︠i︡ati Anatoli︠i︡a Aleksandrovicha Ėrarskogo (Izd. red. "Russkoĭ muzykalʹnoĭ gazety", 1897), by Stepan Vasilʹevich Smolenskiĭ and André Savine Collection (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serovy, Aleksandr Nikolaevich i Valentin Aleksandrovich (Izd. "Shipovnik", 1914), by V. S. Serova and A. N. Serov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bīograficheskīĭ leksikon russkikh kompozitorov i muzykalʹnykh di͡ei͡ateleĭ (Izd. muz. magazina A. Bitnera, 1886), by Aleksandr Ivanovich Rubet͡s (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ėduard Frant︠s︡evich Napravnik : k pi︠a︡tidesi︠a︡tili︠e︡tīi︠u︡ ego artisticheskoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti, 1863--10 senti︠a︡bri︠a︡--1913 (Tip. Glav. upr. udi︠e︡lov, 1914), by V. G. Valʹter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Moi vospominanīi︠a︡. ([s.n.], 1912), by M. I. Figner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dvad͡tsatʹ p͡iatʹ l͡ietʺ slavy vʺ oper͡ie : (kʺ proshchalʹnomu benefisu N.N. Fignera) (Tip. A.S. Suvorina, 1907), by Fignerist and André Savine Collection (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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
• Fathers of classical music (Beechhurst Press ;, 1947), by Charles Angoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ferencz (François) Liszt (AMS Press, 1979), by Frederick Corder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions d'un solitaire (AMS Press, 1978), by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories from my attic (Riverside Press, 1869), by Horace Elisha Scudder and Hurd & Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masters in music (AMS Press, 1974), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masters in music (Bates, 1903), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs and song writers (C. Scribner, 1911), by Henry T. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beethoven (The Roycrofters, 1901), by Elbert Hubbard and Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musicians of to-day (H. Holt and Company, 1915), by Romain Rolland and Mary Blaiklock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalische Studienköpfe (H. Schmidt & C. Günther, 1879), by La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great musical composers : German, French and Italian] (W. Scott, 1887), by George T. Ferris and Elizabeth A. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugo Wolf (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1912), by Max Morold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ernest Bloch : biography and comment. (s.n.], 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern musicians; a book for players, singers & listeners (T.N. Foulis, 1923), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nouvellettes of the musicians (Leavitt, 1850), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mosaik : Denksteine aus dem Leben berühmter Tonkünstler, auf Grund charakteristischer Dokumente (F. Reinboth, 1881), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great musicians (G.W. Jacobs, 1908), by Ernest James Oldmeadow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tondichter-Album : Leben und Werke der hervorragendsten Meister der Tonkunst (M. Diesterweg, 1879), by Karl Oppel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in modern music. (Seeley and Co., 1911), by W. H. Hadow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die neue Musik (E. Rentsch, 1920), by Walther Krug (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Profils de musiciens. (Librairie Fischbacher, 1888), by Hugues Imbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The loves of great composers (Crowell, 1905), by Gustav Kobbé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alla breve : from Bach to Debussy (G. Schirmer, inc., 1921), by Carl Engel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern musicians : a book for players, singers & listeners (T.N. Foulis, 1920), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heinrich Werner : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Liedes (A. Mecke, 1913), by Friedrich Mecke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eine Künstlerfahrt nach Südamerika : Tagebuch Juni-November 1920. (H. Heller, 1921), by Felix Weingartner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in modern music (Seeley and Co., 1902), by W. H. Hadow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Und manche liebe Schatten steigen auf" : Gedenkblätter an berühmte Musiker (Verlag von G. Reinecke, 1900), by Carl Reinecke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hugo Wolf (Methuen, 1907), by Ernest Newman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musica e musicisti; critiche biografie ed escursioni. Haydn -Beethoven - Weber - Meyerbeer - Rossini - Schumann - Wagner - Verdi. (G. Brigola, 1876), by Filippo Filippi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Harold Flammer choral catalogue (Harold Flammer, 1939), by Harold Flammer (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The masters and their music; [a series of illustrative programs, with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations, designed as an introduction to music as literature, for the use of clubs, classes, and private study] (AMS Press, 1971), by W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin (Tudor Pub. Co., 1936), by Henry Bidou and Catherine Alison Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little masterpieces of autobiography. (Doubleday Page & Co. for the Review of Reviews Co., 1909), by George Iles (page images at HathiTrust)
• My musical life (A. A. Knopf, 1923), by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicola Paganini (The Roycrofters, 1901), by Elbert Hubbard and Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalische Charakterbilder: Schubert, Mendelssohn, Weber, Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer. (Adolf Gumprecht, 1869), by Otto Gumprecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians ... (Done into a printed book by the Roycrofters at their Shop ..., 1901), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] (The University Society, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The love affairs of great musicians (L.C. Page, 1907), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Nuova Sirena e il Caro Sassone : note biografiche. ([M. Fontana], 1890), by Giuseppe Marino Urbani de Gheltof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin (Printed at the Riverside Press, 1894), by L. W. M. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice biographique sur François-Joseph Gossé dit Gossec, compositeur de musique, né à Vergnies en Hainaut. (Imprimerie Dequesne-Masquillie, 1878), by Édouard Georges Jacques Gregoir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great musical composers German, French, and Italian (W. Scott :, 1893), by George T. Ferris and E. A. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monographs of the world's greatest musicians (Rose Sanders, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little Bell biographies of master musicians (Bell Piano and Organ Co., 1909), by J. D. Logan and Bell Piano and Organ Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Days with the great composers Chopin, Wagner [and] Gounod. (Musson, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Montreal Conservatory of Music founded in 1898 by C.E. Seifert, 938 Dorchester Street, near Mountain Street Montreal, P.Q., Canada, conducted according to the system of European conservatories and schools of music ... (s.n., 1899), by Montreal Conservatory of Music (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mes mémoires (Marchessou Fils, 1890), by Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous composers and their works. (J. B. Millet company, 1900), by Louis Charles Elson and Philip Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Giuseppe Ferrata [an anniversary souvenir, 1864-1914]. (J. Fischer & Bro., 1914), by J. Fischer & Bro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masters of music; their lives and works. (Dodd, Mead and company, 1901), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• The great tone-poets : being short memoirs of the greater musical composers (J. Church, 1877), by Frederick James Crowest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin (J. M. Dent & co., 1903), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musikalische Studienköpfe (Heinrich Schmidt, 1874), by La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hires zenészek. (Singer és Wolfner :, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gaetano Donizetti e G. Simone Mayr. Notizie e documenti. (Gaffuri e Gatti, 1875), by F. Alborghetti and Michelangelo Galli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographische Notizen über die Componisten der Choral melodien im Baierischen neuen Choral-Buche. Zusammengetragen und nebst einem Anhange zur Erleichterung des Ueberblicks der Melodien und ihrer Verfasser (J.J. Palm und E. Enke, 1823), by Friedrich Johann Albrecht Muck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous composers and their works (J. B. Millet, 1891), by Louis Charles Elson, Philip Hale, Karl Klauser, Theodore Thomas, and John Knowles Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous composers and their works (J. B. Millet Co., 1906), by Louis Charles Elson, Philip Hale, Karl Klauser, Theodore Thomas, and John Knowles Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Grands maîtres de la musique : (jusqu'à Berlioz) (P. Lafitte, 1907), by Marcel Adam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meister der Tonkunst : ein Stück Musikgeschichte in Biographien (Lützenkirchen & Bröcking, 1897), by Elise Vogel Polko (page images at HathiTrust)
• The loves of great composers (George G. Harrap and company, 1919), by Gustav Kobbé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adolf Henselt (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911), by La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians (Roycrofters, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The private life of the great composers (Isbister and company limited, 1892), by John Frederick Rowbotham and James Duff Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-lives of great musicians (Wells Gardner, Darton & co., ltd., 1908), by Francis Jameson Rowbotham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in modern music : Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner (Seeley, 1896), by W. H. Hadow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mozart (P. Reclam jun., 1882), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographie Liszts (P. Reclam, in the 1880s), by Ludwig Nohl and August Göllerich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les trois romans de Frédéric Chopin (Calmann Lévy, 1886), by Antoni Wodzinski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johann Strauss. Mit einem Bildnis Johann Strauss. (P. Reclam jun., 1913), by Fritz Lange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Muzio Clementi : la sua vita, le sue opere e sua influenza sul progresso dell'arte (Ricordi, 1878), by Giovanni Frojo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romantic composers. (AMS Press, 1970), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musiciens du passé, du présent et de l'avenir (Calmann Lévy, 1880), by Henri Blaze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Mozart (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.;, 1912), by Edward Holmes and Ernest Newman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La vie de Franz Liszt (Gallimard, 1926), by Guy de Pourtalès (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pictured lives of great musicians (Boston : C. C. Birchard & Company, [1924], 1924), by Alethea Crawford Cox and Rebekah Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of great composers (G. Routledge, in the 1910s), by C. Hubert H. Parry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Palmer Hartsough, singing school teacher, Michigan song writer, and minister (The author, 1937), by Henry O. Severance (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Grieg to Brahms: Studies of Some Modern Composers and Their Art, by Daniel Gregory Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Romantic Composers, by Daniel Gregory Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Masters and Their Music: A series of illustrative programs with biographical,: esthetical, and critical annotations, by W. S. B. Mathews (Gutenberg ebook)
• F. Chopin (in French), by Franz Liszt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Musicians of To-Day, by Romain Rolland, trans. by Mary Blaiklock (Gutenberg ebook)

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