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• Great Musicians (London: E. Grant Richards, 1908), by Ernest Oldmeadow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Monographs of the world's greatest musicians [electronic resource]. ([Vancouver : Rose Sanders, c1913]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Montreal Conservatory of Music [electronic resource] : 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 ... ([Montréal? : s.n., D. English), 1899?), by Montreal Conservatory of Music (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wagner, his musical theories [electronic resource] / ([Montreal? : s.n.], 1873), by Reid Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days with the great composers [electronic resource] : Chopin, Wagner [and] Gounod. (Toronto : Musson, [191-?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little Bell biographies of master musicians [electronic resource]. (Guelph, Ont. : Bell Piano and Organ Co., [190-?]), by J. D. Logan and Bell Piano and Organ Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great Italian and French composers. (New York : D. Appleton, 1886 [c1878]), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great German composers. (New York, D. Appleton, 1879 [c1878]), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• L.D.S. hymns : national songs and their composers / (Ogden, Utah : Industrial Publishing Company, 1909), by C. Fred Schade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern composers of Europe; being an account of the most recent musical progress in the various European nations, with some notes on their history, (London, 1909), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cecilian gift ; or, Romances of the musicians : a Christmas , New Year, and birthday gift. (New York : Leavitt, [185-?]), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masters in music. (Boston : Bates & Guild Co., 1903-1905), by David Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jottings. ([Washington, D. C., 1959]), by Mary Howe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A manual of music : its history, biography, and literature illustrated with chronological charts, including biographies and portraits of eminent composers; with characteristic specimens from their works carefully analyzed and explained. A dictionary of technical and proper names with definitions and simplified pronunciations. / (Chicago : The Musical Manual Pub. Co., [1890]), by W. M. Derthick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz-1819-1863 / (Paris : Calmann-Lévy, 1879), by Hector Berlioz and Daniel Bernard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bruckner; versuch einees lebens, (Berlin, Schuster & Loeffler, [1920]), by Ernst Decsey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antonín Dvořák / ([Chicago] : The Antonín Dvořák centennial committee of the Czechoslovak national council, [1941]), by Jar. E. S. Vojan and Czechoslovak National Council of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• La jeunesse de Grétry et ses débuts a Paris. (Besançon : Imprimerie Jacques et Demontrond, 1920), by Pauline Long (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anton Gosswin : ca. 1540-1594 : sein leben und seine werke : ein beitrage zur geschichte der hofkapellen in München und Freising. (Munchen : Hans Sachs-verlag, 1909), by Bruno Eduard Hirzel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Niels W. Gade : til belysning af hans liv og kunst i hundred-aaret for mesterens fødsel. (Kjøbenhavn og Kristiania : Gyldendal, 1917), by Charles Theodor Martin Kjerulf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aneddoti piacevoli e interessanti occorsi nella vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari da Rovereto : operetta scritta del lui medesimo / (Palermo : Sandron, [1920]), by G. G. Ferrari and Salvatore Di Giacomo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Briefe / (Leipzig : Insel-Verlag, 1909), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Albert Leitzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zavetnye dumy Skri︠a︡bina. (Petrograd : Izdatelʹstvo "Myslʹ", 1922), by I. I. Lapshin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carl Maria von Weber / (Leipzig : Quelle & Meyer, 1919), by Hermann Ludwig von der Pfordten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eine Künstlerfahrt nach Südamerika : Tagebuch Juni-November 1920. (Wien ; Leipzig : H. Heller, 1921), by Felix Weingartner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vie de Beethoven. (Paris : Hachette et cie, 1914), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in modern music / (London : Seeley and Co., 1902-1904), by W. H. Hadow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven. ([Bielefeld : Velhagen & Klasings, 1913?]), by Gustav Thormälius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig Beethoven / (Zürich : M. Rascher, 1918), by Romain Rolland and Lisbeth Langnese-Hug (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grétry et son époque : (avec tirés à part) / (Liège : Imprimerie Bénard, 1918), by J. Hogge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue illustré : rédigé par l'œuvre des artistes et précédé d'une étude / (Liège : Bérnard, 1913), by Belgium) Museé Grétry (Liège and H. Fierens-Gevaert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chopin. (Berlin : Schuster & Loeffler, 1922), by Adolf Weissmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hermann Goetz' Leben und sein Schaffen auf dem Gebiet de Oper. (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1916), by Eduard Kreuzhage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Behandlung des Rezitativs in Glucks italienischen Reformopern. (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1919), by Ralph Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Stephen Collins Foster Memorial of the University of Pittsburgh : dedicated June 2, 1937 : a tribute to the composer whose melodies have become the heart songs of the American people. (Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh, 1941), by Fletcher Hodges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ėduard Frant︠s︡evich Napravnik : k pi︠a︡tidesi︠a︡tili︠e︡tīi︠u︡ ego artisticheskoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti, 1863--10 senti︠a︡bri︠a︡--1913 / (Sanktpeterburg : Tip. Glav. upr. udi︠e︡lov, 1914), by V. G. Valʹter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Célebration du centenaire de César Franck : 1822-1922. ([Liége? : s.n., 1922?]), by Conservatoire royal de musique de Liège (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach : sein Leben und seine Werke, mit thematischem Verzeichnis seiner Kompositionen und zwei Bildern / (Leipzig : C. F. Kahnt Nachfolger, c1913), by Martin Falck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Constanz Berneker / (Charlottenburh : P. Lehsten, 1909), by Victor Laudien and Konrad Burdach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Brahms / (Paris : F. Alcan, 1921), by Paul Charles René Landormy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johannes Brahms : Mit 64 Abbildungen und einem farbigen Umschlagbild. (Leipzig : Velhagen & Klasing, 1922), by Ludwig Misch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• César Franck. (Paris : F. Alcan, 1910), by Vincent d' Indy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven. (Leipzig : Quelle & Meyer, 1913), by Hermann Ludwig von der Pfordten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig van Beethoven / (New York : Grosset and Dunlap, [1951]), by Pitts Sanborn and Herbert F. Peyser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edvard Grieg : Biographie und Würdigung seiner Werke / (Leipzig : Peters, [1908]), by Gerhard Rosenkrone Schjelderup and Walter Niemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Robert Franz / Neubearbeiteter einzeldruck aus den Musikalischen studienköpfen. (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911), by Ida Maria Lipsius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schlesisches Tonkünstler-Lexikon, (Breslau, E. Trewendt, 1846-1847), by Carl Kossmaly and Carl Heinrich Herzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• American composers : a study of the music of this country and of its future, with biographies of the leading composers of the present time : being a new rev. ed. of Contemporary American composers / (Boston : The Page company, [1918, c1914]), by Rupert Hughes and Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugo Wolf : Erinnerungen und Gedanken / (Leipzig : Lauterbach & Kuhn, 1903), by Michael Haberlandt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le mie memorie artistiche : autobiografia riscontrata sugli autografi / (Bologna : Forni, 1978), by Giovanni Pacini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alla breve; from Bach to Debussy, (New York, G. Schirmer, inc., [c1921]), by Carl Engel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians / (East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycrofters, c1916), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherubini : memorials illustrative of his life and work. (Birmingham : Cornish brothers limited ;, 1912), by Edward Bellasis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The private life of the great composers, (London, Isbister and company limited, 1892), by John Frederick Rowbotham and James Duff Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a pianist / During his professional tours in the United States, Canada, the Antilles and South America : Preceded by a short biographical sketch with contemporaneous criticisms ; Edited by his sister, Clara Gottschalk ; Translated from the French by Robert E. Peterson. (Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & co., 1881), by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, R. E. Peterson, and Clara Gottschalk Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-lives of great musicians; (London, Wells Gardner, Darton & co., ltd., [1908]), by Francis Jameson Rowbotham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of Russian music, (London, Chatto & Windus, 1915), by Arthur Pougin and Lawrence Haward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The letters of Robert Schumann / (New York : E.P. Dutton, 1907), by Robert Schumann, Hannah Bryant, and Karl Storck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musicians of to-day, (New York, H. Holt, 1919), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Brahms, the Herzogenberg correspondence / (London, J. Murray, 1909), by Johannes Brahms, Hannah Bryant, Max Kalbeck, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, and Heinrich von Herzogenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians : Nicola Paganini / (East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1901), by Elbert Hubbard, contrib. by Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gabriel Fauré / (Paris : Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Français, [1922]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cherubini : (1760-1842) : Notes et dicuments inédits. (Lille : Impr. Lefebvre-Ducrocq, 1913), by Maurice Quatrelles L'Epine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire des concerts populaires de musique classique, (Paris, Castel, 1864), by A. Elwart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Danske komponister : fire skildringer. (Kjøbenhavn : [s.n.], 1875), by Wildenrath Christian Carl Boeck Thrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johann Sebastian Bach ; the story of the development of a great personality, (New York, Putnam's, 1909), by C. Hubert H. Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous composers and their music. (Boston, J. B. Millet company, [1901]), by Karl Klauser, John Knowles Paine, and Theodore Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• First studies in music biography. (Philadelphia, T. Presser, [1901]), by Thomas Tapper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Beethoven / (Chicago, [Ill.] : A.C. McClurg, 1910, c1880), by Ludwig Nohl and John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue : Evanston authors and composers / (Evanston, Ill. : Young Women's Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church, 1900), by Frances Simpson and Evanston Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great composers / (Boston : Lothrop Pub. Co., 1894), by Hezekiah Butterworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians ... (East Aurora, N. Y., The Roycrofters, 1901-), by Elbert Hubbard and Roycroft Shop. 797 % sp2 (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Giuseppe Ferrata [an anniversary souvenir, 1864-1914]. ([New York, J. Fischer & Bro., 1914]), by J. Fischer & Bro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zapiski Mikhaila Ivanovicha Glinki : 1804-1854. (Sanktpeterburg : Izd. "Russkoĭ stariny", 1871), by M. I. Glinka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biografi a de don Santiago de Masarnau / (Madrid : Tip. del Sagrado Corazo n, 1905), by Jose Mari a Quadrado (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Papers on literature and art / (London : Wiley & Putnam, 1846), by Margaret Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Friedrich Zelter und der deutsche Ma nnergesang / (Basel : Schweighauserische Buchdruckerei, 1862), by Ludwig Sieber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wagner, eine Biographie. (Berlin : Schuster & Loeffler, 1921 [c1910]), by Julius Kapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El wagnerismo en Madrid / (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)
• Vzpomínky na Fibicha / (V Praze : Nákladem komorního hudebního závodu Mojmíra Urbánka, 1909), by Otakar Hostinský (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Commemorazione di Gaetano Donizetti inaugurandosi il di lui monumento nella Chiesa di S. Maria Maggiore in Bergamo il 16 giugno 1855. (Bergamo : Dalla Tipografia Mazzoleni, MDCCCLV [1855]), by Gabriele Rosa, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cenni biografici di Gaetano Donizetti, raccolta da un vecchio dilettante di musica di buona memoria : coll' elenco cronologico delle opere del grande orobio : pubblicati in occasione del solenne scoprimento della statua di Donizetti, dono delle esimia signora G. Lucca nell'atrio del Teatro della Scala il 10 marzo 1874. (Milano : E. Civelli e C. Tipografi-Editori, 1874), by Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ultimi giorni di Gaetano Donizetti : versi / (Bergamo : Tip. Frat. Bolis, 1875), by Enrico Costa, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei musikalische Nachlasshefte. (Pressburg : Drodtleff, [18- ]), by August Wilhelm Ambros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handel, the Duke of Chandos, and The harmonious blacksmith / (London : Musical News Off., 1915), by William Hayman Cummings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Begegnungen auf meinem Lebensweg : Plaudereinen, Erinnerungen und Eindrücke aus jungen Jahren / (Wien, Hugo Heller, 1916), by Robert Fischhof (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gabriel Fauré et son œuvre. (Paris : Durand, c1914), by Louis Vuillemin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Louis Anseaume und das französische Singspiel. (Leipzig : 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. (Leipzig : Druck von Giesecke & Devrient, 1905), by Alfred Leopold Ebert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johann Sebastian Bach : his life, art, and work / (London : Constable and company ltd., 1920), by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Charles Sanford Terry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sebastian Bach und die Tonkunst des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts : Für den Druck an einen Stellen geändert und erweitert. (Leipzig : Poeschel & Trepte, 1902), by Arthur Prüfer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aus Richard Wagners pariser Zeit. Aufsätze und Kunst-Berichte des Meisters aus Paris 1841. (Berlin, Deutsche Bücherei, [1907]), by Richard Wagner and Richard Sternfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heinrich Werner : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Liedes / (Duderstadt : A. Mecke, 1913), by Friedrich Mecke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dansk tonekunst : (Tonekunstens mestre II) / (København : H. Hagerup, 1916), by Anna Erslev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven-Biographie / (Berlin : Schuster & Loeffler, 1909), by Anton Schindler and Alfred Christlieb Kalischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Robert Schumann / (Berlin : Bard, Marquardt, 1906), by Ernst Wolff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Berlioz / (Paris : G. Havard, 1856), by Eugène de Mirecourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Brahms Briefe an P.J. Simrock und Fritz Simrock, (Berlin, Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft m.b.H., 1917-19), by Johannes Brahms, Max Kalbeck, Fritz Simrock, and Peter Joseph Simrock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina / (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1914), by Eugen Schmitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bruckner-Fest, 1919 23 April-27 April / (Wien : Verlag der Universal-Edition, 1919), by Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Art life and theories of Richard Wagner / (New York : Henry Holt, 1889), by Richard Wagner, William Foster Apthorp, and Edward L. Burlingame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] / (New York : The University Society, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familienbriefe von Richard Wagner, 1832-1874. (Berlin, A. Duncker, 1907), by Richard Wagner, ed. by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johannes Brahms als mensch, lehrer und künstler / (Marburg in Hessen : N.G. Elwert, 1905), by Gustav Jenner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ferruccio Busoni : der versuch eines porträts / (Leipzig : E. P. Tal & co., 1922), by Gisella Selden-Goth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cherubini : memorials illustrative of his life. (Birmingham : Cornish brothers limited ;, 1905), by Edward Bellasis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Briefwechsel zwischen Wagner und Liszt. (Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, 1900), by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musikalische Studienköpfe / (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1912), by La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Mozart, (London, J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E. P. Dutton & co., [1912]), by Edward Holmes and Ernest Newman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frederic Chopin : his life and letters / (New York : Scribner ; London :Reeves, 1906), by Maurycy Karasowski and Emily Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• J.S. bach / (Paris : F. Alcan, 1907), by André Pirro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bach : sein leben und seine werke / (Berlin : Schuster & Loeffler, [1910]), by André Pirro and Bernhard Engelke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some musicians of former days / (London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1915), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oskar Fried, sein Werden und Schaffen, (Berlin, "Harmonie," verlagsgesellschaft für Literatur und Kunst, 1907), by Paul Bekker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Actes d'état civil de musiciens insinués au Châtelet de Paris (1530-1650) (Paris, L. M. Fortin, 1907), by Jules Ecorcheville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great German composers. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1878), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edvard Grieg / (London ; New York : J. Lane, 1906), by Henry Theophilus Finck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Svenska tonsättare under nittonde århundradet, (Stockholm, Wahlström & Widstrand, [1908]), by Lina Lagerbielke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great modern composers. (New York, H. W. Gray Company, 1918 [c1916]), by Daniel Gregory Mason and Mary L. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Grieg to Brahms : studies of some modern composers and their art / (New York : Macmillan, 1908, 1902), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Brahms; the Herzogenberg correspondence, (New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1909), by Johannes Brahms, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, Elisabeth Herzogenberg, and Heinrich von Herzogenberg, ed. by Max Kalbeck, trans. by Hannah Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in modern music. (London : Seeley and Co., 1911-1913), by W. H. Hadow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die deutsche Gluck-Literatur : (Christoph Willibald ritter v. Gluck, 1714-1787) / (Nürnberg : C. Koch, 1914), by Stephan Wortsmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johann Joseph Abert : (1832-1915) : seine Leben und seine Werke / (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1916), by Hermann Abert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masters of music; their lives and works. (New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1901), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great tone-poets : being short memoirs of the greater musical composers / (Cincinnati : J. Church, 1877), by Frederick James Crowest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Wagner und Leipzig, 1813-1833 / (Leipzig : H. Seeman, 1901), by Eugen Segnitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johannes Brahms im briefwechsel mit J. O. Grimm, (Berlin, Verlag der Deutschen Brahms-gesellschaft m.b.h., 1908), by Johannes Brahms and Julius Otto Grimm, ed. by Richard Barth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories from the operas : with short biographies of the composers, third series / (London : T.W. Laurie, [1910?]), by Gladys Davidson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some musicians of former days : Shakespeare: his music and song / (London : Waverly Book Co., [1920?]), by Romain Rolland and A. H. Shakespeare; his music and song Moncur-Sime (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les musiciens et la musique / (Paris : Calmann-Lévy, [1903]), by Hector Berlioz and André Hallays (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masters in music. (New York : AMS Press, 1974), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven / (Berlin : Bard, Marquardt, 1907), by August Göllerich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig van Beethovens sämtliche Briefe und Aufzeichnungen. (Wien, Leipzig, C.W. Stern, 1907-1911), by Ludwig van Beethoven, ed. by Fritz Prelinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pages from an unwritten diary / (New York : Longmans, Green & Co., 1914), by Charles Villiers Stanford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aleksandr Nikolaevich Si︠e︡rov : ego zhiznʹ i muzykalʹnai︠a︡ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnostʹ / (Moskva : P. I︠U︡rgenson, 1904), by N. F. Fendeĭzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Leben Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky's / (Moskau : P. Jurgenson, [1901]-1903), by Modest Ilʹich Chaĭkovskiĭ and Paul Juon, trans. by Paul Juon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Muzykalʹnye felʹetony i zami︠e︡tki Petra Ilʹicha Chaĭkovskago, 1868-1876 : s prilozhenīem portreta, avtobīograficheskago opisanii︠a︡ puteshestvīi︠a︡ zagranit︠s︡u v 1888 godu i predislovīi︠a︡ G.A. Larosha. (Moskva : I︠A︡kovlev, 1898), by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and G. A. Larosh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zhiznʹ Petra Ilʹicha Chaĭkovskago : po dokumentam, khrani︠a︡shchimsi︠a︡ v arkhivi︠e︡ imeni pokoĭnago kompozitora v Klinu / (Moskva : P. I︠U︡rgenson, [1901]-1903), by Modest Ilʹich Chaĭkovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Popular american composers. (New York, Herbert Taylor, [c1902]), by Frank L. Boyden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world of music : the great composers / (New York : Brentano's, 1902), by Anna Dunphy Brémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Und manche liebe Schatten steigen auf" : Gedenkblätter an berühmte Musiker / (Leipzig : Verlag von G. Reinecke, 1900), by Carl Reinecke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great German composers, Bach to Dvôrak, (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1895), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Italian and French composers. (New York, D. Appleton and company, [c1895]), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Italian and French composers / (New York : Appleton, 1883), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Nikolaĭ Andreevich Rimskīĭ-Korsakov : ocherk ego zhiznʹ i di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti / (Moskva : P. I︠U︡rgenson, 1908), by V. V. I͡Astrebt͡sev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nikolaĭ Andreevich Rimskīĭ-Korsakov : ocherk ego muzykalʹnoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti / (S.-Peterburg : V. Besselʹ, 1908), by N. F. Fendeĭzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Fryderyk Chopin i utwory jego muzyczne : przyczynek do życiorysu i oceny kompozycyi artysty / (Poznań : Nakładem księgarni Jana Konstantego Żupańskiego, 1873), by Marceli Antoni Szulc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glinka / (New York : Duffield and company, 1917), by M. Montagu-Nathan (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Briefe von Beethoven an Marie Gräfin Erdödy, geb. Gräfin Niszky und Mag. Brauchle / (Leipzig : Breitkopf und Härtel, 1867), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Alfred Schöne (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, (Erlangen; J.J. Palm und E. Enke, 1823), by Friedrich Johann Albrecht Muck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaetano Donizetti e G. Simone Mayr. Notizie e documenti. (Bergamo, Gaffuri e Gatti, 1875), by F. Alborghetti and Michelangelo Galli (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Notizie dei maestri ed artisti di musica pistoiesi : lette nelle adunanze letterarie della R. Accademia Pistoiese di scienze, lettere ed arti de' 10 marzo e 21 luglio 1878 / (Pistoia : Tipografia Niccolai, 1878), by G. C. Rospigliosi and lettere ed arti Reale Accademia Pistoiesi di scienze (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Musiciens français d'aujourd'hui : notices biographiques, suivies d'un essai de bibliographie et accompagnées d'un autographe musical. (Paris : Mercvre de France, 1921), by Jean Poueigh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• The great tone poets : being short memoirs of the greater musical composers (London ; New York : Macmillan, 1908), by Frederick James Crowest (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world of music, (New York, Brentano's, 1892), by Anna Dunphy Brémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to homes of great musicians. (East Aurora, N. Y., Roycrofters, 1901), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Wagner an Minna Wagner (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1908), by Richard Wagner and Minna Planer Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsche Tonmeister: biographische Erzählungen und Charakterbilder, der musikalischen Judgend gewidmet; (Leipzig, Alphons Dürr, 1878), by Joseph Stieler, illust. by Paul Thumann, C. Offterdinger, Woldemar Friedrich, Wilhelm Claudius, and Hugo Bürkner (page images at HathiTrust)
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• August Bungert / (Berlin : August Stahl, [1915]), by Max Chop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• The loves of great composers / (London : George G. Harrap and company, 1919), by Gustav Kobbé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Apostrophes : a book of tributes to masters of music / (New York : The Grafton Press, c1910), by Alfred Kreymborg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Driedaagsch Nederlandsch Muziekfeest : op 10, 11 en 12 Januari 1902 in de Groote Zaal van het Concertgebouw, met Medewerking can het koor der Zangvereeniging, het Orkest van het Concertgebouw, het klein Koor à capella (Directeur Ant. Averkamp), de Liedertafel Apollo (Directeur Fred. J. Roeske), en een Kinderkoor onder leiding van Cath. van Rennes ; Feest-Directeur W. Mengelberg. (Amsterdam : Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst, [1902]), by Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst, Willem Mengelberg, and Concertgebouworkest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Danske komponister i det 20. aarhundredes begyndelse / (Aarhus : E. H. Jung, 1916), by Gerhardt Lynge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Adolf Henselt / (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911), by La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Aus dem Leben deutscher Musiker; Biographien der Grossmeister deutscher Tonkunst für jung und alt. (Braunschweig : Wollermann, 1920), by Elsbeth Friedrichs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johannes Brahms Briefe an Joseph Viktor Widmann, Ellen und Ferdinand Detter, Adolf Schubring / (Berlin : Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1915), by Johannes Brahms, Ferdinand. Letters Vetter, Ellen. Letters Vetter, Max Kalbeck, Adolf Schubring, and Joseph Viktor Widmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peter Cornelius / (Leipzig : P. Reclam jun., [1906]), by Edgar Istel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Great Italian and French composers, Palestrina to Massenet; (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1903), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Half hours with the best composers / (Boston : Millet, c1894-1895), by Theodore Thomas and Karl Klauser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Franz Liszt's Briefe an Carl Gille / (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1903), by Franz Liszt and Adolf Stern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Franz Liszt's Briefe / (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1893-1905), by Franz Liszt and La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Meister der Tonkunst : Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Weber, Schumann, Mendelssohn. (Berlin : W. Spemann, 1903), by Carl Reinecke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dokumentation zu Karl Friedrich Christian Fasch, 1736-1800 / ([Blankenburg/Harz? : Die Forschungsstätte, 1983?]), by Carl Friedrich Zelter, Eitelfriedrich Thom, and Kultur- und Forschungsstätte Michaelstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Mendelssohn / (Berlin : Schuster & Loeffler, 1922), by Walter G. Armando (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Ilʹ͡ia Sa͡ts. (Moskva : 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)
• Beethoven / (Paris : F. Alcan, 1907), by Jean Chantavoine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Giulio Caccini. (Leipzig : Druck von Hesse & Becker, 1908), by Alfred Ehrichs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig van Beethoven : Zur hundertjährigen geburtstagsfeier : Vortrag, gehalten im Wissenschaftlichen verein zu Berlin am '.januar 1871 / (Berlin : C.G. Lüderitz (A. Charisius), 1871), by Emil Naumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Sebastian Bach / (London : Searle & Rivington, 1882), by Reginald Lane Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians : Beethoven / (East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1901), by Elbert Hubbard, contrib. by Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performing arts : music. (Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., 1995), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Imaginary biographical letters from great masters of music to young people / (Philadelphia : T. Presser, 1911), by Alethea Brinckerhoff Crawford Cox and Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the great musicians; a course in appreciation for young readers, (London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1920), by Percy Alfred Scholes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the Crosby Brown collection of musicians' portraits : Biographical sketches / (New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1904), by N.Y.). Crosby Brown Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Clara Buffum, and Mary Elizabeth Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern French music, (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1924), by Edward Burlingame Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern French music, (London G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., [1924]), by Edward Burlingame Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La musique française moderne : quinze musiciens français : 12 portraits -- 15 autographes. (Paris : Delagrave, 1924 [c1922]), by André Cœuroy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romantic composers. (New York, Macmillan, 1924), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
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• The life of Ethelbert Nevin : from his letters and his wife's memories / (Boston, Mass. : The Boston Music Co., 1913), by Vance Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus meinem Leben / (Berlin : Behr, 1870-77), by Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer, and our musical life in colonial times. ([Philadelphia?, 1919]), by O. G. Sonneck (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Die Componisten der neueren Zeit. Adam, Auber, Beethoven [et al.] in Biographien geschildert von W. Neumann. (Cassel, Balde, 1855-56), by William Neumann (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Della vita e delle opere del Cav. Francesco Morlacchi di Perugia : primo maestro nella Real Capella di Dresda ... / (Perugia : V. Bartelli, 1860), by Giovanni Battista Rossi-Scotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romance of Psalter and Hymnal : authors and composers / (New York : J. Pott, 1889), by R. E. Welsh and F. G. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Weber / (London : S. Low, Marston and company (limited), 1896), by Julius Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe / (Berlin : P. Zsolnay Verlag, 1926), by Giuseppe Verdi, Paul Stefan, and Franz Werfel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vospominanii͡a o P. I. Chaĭkovskom / (Moskva : Muzykalʹnai͡a torgovli͡a P. I͡Urgensona, 1896), by N. Kashkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pisʹma Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Si︠e︡rova k ego sestri︠e︡ S.N. Di︠u︡-Tur : 1845-1861 gg. / (S.-Peterburg : Tip. N. Findeĭzena, 1896), by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Serov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Debussy. ('s-Gravenhage : Kruseman, [1926]), by Rient van Santen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and works of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel / (1981), by Victoria Ressmeyer Sirota (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868; avec une notice biographique par Daniel Bernard. (Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1896), by Hector Berlioz and Daniel Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in modern music : Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner / (London : Seeley, 1896), by W. H. Hadow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsere deutschen Meister : Bach, Mozart, Beethoven Wagner. (München : F. Bruckmann, 1901), by Friedrich von Hausegger and Rudolf Louis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musikalische Studienköpfe, (Leipzig : H. Schmidt & C. Günther, [1878-1896, v.1, 1879]), by Ida Maria Lipsius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English madrigal composers / (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1921), by Edmund H. Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Composers in love and marriage., by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La vie de Franz Liszt / ([Paris] : Gallimard, [1929], c1926), by Guy de Pourtalès (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bīografīi kompozitorov s IV-XX vi͡ek s portretami / (Moskva : Izdanīe K.A. Durnovo, 1904), by H. Pachulski and A. Ilʹinskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unfinished portraits; stories of musicians and artists, (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1916), by Jennette Barbour Perry Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• My musical life; (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1923), by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musicians of to-day, (New York : H. Holt and Company, 1915), by Romain Rolland and Mary Blaiklock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Leben Richard Wagners / (Leipzig : Breitkopf und Härtel, 1894-1911), by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Brahms / With illustrations and portraits. (London : J.M. Dent ; New York :E.P. Dutton, 1905), by J. Lawrence Erb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern musicians; a book for players, singers and listeners, (London, Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1914), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mein Leben / (München : F. Bruckmann a.-G., 1911), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zhiznʹ Petra Ilʹicha Chaĭkovskago. Po dokumentam″, khrani︠a︡shchimsi︠a︡ v″ arkhivi︠e︡ imeni pokoĭnago kompozitora v″Klinu. S″ prilozhenïem″ portretov″, snimkov″ i faksimile, ispolnennykh″ fotot︠s︡inkograficheskim″ sposobom″. (Moskva, Leĭpt︠s︡ig, Sobstvennostʹ izdateli︠a︡ P. I︠U︡rgensona, [1900-02]), by Modest Ilʹich Chaĭkovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov : ego zhiznʹ i tvorchestvo / ([Saint Petersburg] : Izdanīe "Kont︠s︡ertov A. Ziloti", [1907?]), by A. V. Ossovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pictured lives of great musicians /, by Alethea Crawford Cox and Rebekah Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carlo Gesualdo : Prince of Venosa, musician and murderer / (New York : L. MacVeagh : Dial Press, 1926), by Cecil Gray and Peter Warlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louis Aubert : son oeuvre / (Paris : A. Durand, c1921), by Louis Vuillemin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bedřich Smetana / (Praha : Universum, nakl. J. Lišky, 1923), by Václav Crha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charles Sanford Skilton / (New York : C. Fischer, 1929), by John Tasker Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Esatiz-i elhan : Şark ve Garbın en meşhur musikişinaslarının tercüme-yi halleri ile nefı̂s eserleri ve kıymetdar teʼlifleri hakkında mükemmel maʻlûmatı havi bir eser dir ki icrası peyderpey neşr edilecektir / (İstanbul : Mahmut Bey Matbaası, 1318 [1900 or 1901]-1924), by Rauf Yekta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• J.S. Bach; (London, A. & C. Black, [1923]), by Albert Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stephen Collins Foster : a biography of America's folk-song composer / (New York : G. Schirmer, [c1920]), by Harold Vincent Milligan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The International library of music for home and studio; (New York, The University Society, [1925]), by Nicholas De Vore and Charles Frederick Dennée (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great composers and their work. (Boston : L. C. Page and Co., 1910, 1898), by Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous composers, (New York, T. Y. Crowell & co., [1902]), by Nathan Haskell Dole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern music and musicians. (New York, The University Society, Inc., [c1918]), by Ignace Jan Paderewski and Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographische Skizze von Wolfgang Amadäus Mozart : nach richtigen Quellen bearbeitet : mit dem Portraite von Mozart. (Tutzing : Hans Schneider, c2005) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Century library of music; (New York, The Century co., 1900-02), by Bernardus Boekelman, Fanny Morris Smith, and Ignace Jan Paderewski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kʻristafor Kara-Murza : nra keankʻě ew gortsunēutʻiwně / (Vienna : Mkhitʻarean Tparan, 1925), by Ṛuben Tʻerlemezyan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Familiar songs : with historical sketches of the songs and their authors / (New York : H.M. Caldwell Co., Publishers, ©1896), by Helen Kendrick Johnson and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers. WU (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of great composers / (London : G. Routledge, [191-?]), by C. Hubert H. Parry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American composers; a study of the music of this country, and of its future, (Boston, The Page company, 1914), by Rupert Hughes and Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern music and musicians for vocalists. (New York, The University Society, [c1918]), by Nicholas De Vore and Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ernest Bloch : biography and comment. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• André-Modeste Grétry / (Turnhout : Établissements Brepols, 1920), by Ernest Closson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The third book of the great musicians; a further course in appreciation for young readers, (London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1923), by Percy A. Scholes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtungen von Richard Wagner. (Leipzig, E. W. Fritzsch, 1871-83), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Wagner an Mathilde Wesendonk : Tagebuchblätter und Briefe, 1853-1871. (Berlin : A. Duncker, 1909), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hires zenészek. (Budapest : Singer és Wolfner : Karriérek Kiadóhivatala, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An. K. Li︠a︡dov / (Petrograd : 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)
• A history of Russian music : being an account of the rise and progress of the Russian school of composers, with a survey of their lives and a description of their works / (Temecula, CA : Reprint Services Corp., 1990), by M. Montagu-Nathan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Perepiska M.A. Balakireva s V.V. Stasovym, (Petrograd, 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)
• Impressions that remained : memoirs / (London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919), by Ethel Smyth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of Russian music; being an account of the rise and progress of the Russian school of composers, with a survey of their lives and a description of their works, (New York, C. Scribner's sons; London, W. Reeves, [1918]), by M. Montagu-Nathan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous American composers : being a study of the music of this country, and of its future, with biographies of the leading composers of the present-time / (Boston : L. C. Page, [1906, c1900]), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Grieg to Brahms; studies of some modern composers and their art, (New York, The Outlook company, 1903), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brahms, the man and his music / (New York : AMS Press, 1978), by E. Markham Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carl Maria von Weber / (New York : AMS Press, [1980]), by Julius Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ferencz (François) Liszt / (New York : AMS Press, 1979), by Frederick Corder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glinka / (New York : AMS Press, 1976), by M. Montagu-Nathan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lully / (New York : AMS Press, 1978), by Lionel de La Laurencie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Handel / (New York : AMS Press, 1976), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moussorgsky / (New York : AMS Press, 1976), by M. Montagu-Nathan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Purcell / (New York : AMS Press, 1978), by Henri Dupré (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My recollections (1848-1912). (New York, AMS Press, 1971]), by Jules Massenet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rimsky-Korsakof / (New York : AMS Press, 1976), by M. Montagu-Nathan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Composers eleven. (New York : G. Braziller, 1959), by Neville Cardus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Arthur Sullivan, his life and music / (New York : AMS Press, 1976), by Benjamin William Findon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contemporary composers. ([New York, AMS Press, 1973]), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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] (New York, AMS Press, [1971]), by W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous composers and their works; (Boston, J. B. Millet company, [c1891]), ed. by Karl Klauser, Theodore Thomas, and John Knowles Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• English glee and madrigal writers : two lectures / (London : W. Reeves, [1877?]), by William Alexander Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jugendbriefe / (Leipzig : Breitkopf und Härtel, 1885), by Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avtobīograficheskīe vospominanī͡͡ia A.G. Rubinshteĭna, 1829-1889 gg. / (S.-Peterburg : Izd. red. zhurnala "Russka͡ia starina", 1889), by Anton Rubinstein, G. A. Larosh, M. Semevskiĭ, and André Savine Collection (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a musical life : an autobiography / (Cincinnati : Published by the John Church Co., c1891), by George F. Root (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romantic composers. (New York, AMS Press, [1970]), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gluck / biographie critique, illustree de douze reproductions hors texte. (Paris : H. Laurens, [1906]), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rossini and his school / (London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881), by H. Sutherland Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern musicians : a book for players, singers & listeners / (London ; Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis, [1920]), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beethoven / (London : S. Low, Marston and Company, 1903), by H. A. Rudall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alla breve : from Bach to Debussy / (New York : G. Schirmer, inc., [c1921]), by Carl Engel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalische Studienköpfe / (Leipzig : H. Schmidt & C. Günther, [1879-1902]), by La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The earlier French musicians (1632-1834) (London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1917), by Mary Hargrave (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masters in music / (New York : AMS Press, 1974), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern music and musicians. (New York, The University Society, Inc., [c1918]), by Ignace Jan Paderewski and Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions d'un solitaire / (New York : AMS Press, 1978), by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masters of music. (Washington : Review and Herald, [1948]), by Arvid C. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zeneszerző portrék (in Hungarian), by Géza Csáth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lighter Classics in Music: A Comprehensive Guide to Musical Masterworks in a Lighter Vein by 187 Composers, by David Ewen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of George T. Ferris, by George T. Ferris, ed. by David Widger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Derniers souvenirs d'un musicien (in French), by Adolphe Adam (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contemporary Composers, by Daniel Gregory Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• Musiciens d'autrefois (in French), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Great Musical Composers: German, French, and Italian, by George T. Ferris, ed. by Elizabeth A. Sharp (Gutenberg ebook)
• Story-Lives of Great Musicians, by Francis Jameson Rowbotham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers, by Paul Rosenfeld (Gutenberg ebook)

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