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• Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild (second edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Jansa, 1911), ed. by Friedrich Jansa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (New York: Pub. by Doubleday, Doran and Co. for U.S. School of Music, c1912), ed. by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allmänt musiklexikon (Wahlström & Widstrand, 1912), by Tobias Norlind (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographisch-bibliographisches quellen-lexikon der musiker und musikgelehrten der christlichen zeitrechnung bis zur mitte des neunzehnten jahrhunderts (Breitkopf & Haertel, 1900), by Robert Eitner and Hermann Springer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catálogo del Archivo de Música de la Real Capilla de Palacio. (Editorial del Patrimonio Nacional, 1900), by José García Marcellán and Palacio de Oriente (Spain) Capilla. Archivo de Música (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panthéon musical populaire. (Schott, 1876), by Édouard Georges Jacques Gregoir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Écrits de musiciens (15e-18e siècles) Palestrina--R. de Lassus--Lully--Marcello--J.-S. Bach--Hændel--Rameau--Hasse--Gluc--Sacchini--etc. (Mercvre de France, 1912), by J.-G. Prod'homme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stokes' encyclopedia of music and musicians : covering the entire period of musical history from the earliest times to the season of 1908-09 (Stokes, 1974), by L. J. De Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black's dictionary of music & musicians (A. & C. Black, ltd., 1924), by Leander Jan De Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dictionary of modern music and musicians. (J.M. Dent, 1924), by A. Eaglefield Hull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The musical guide; containing a pronouncing and defining dictionary of terms, instruments, &c. ... (McClure, Phillips & co., 1903), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical dictionary of musicians (G. Schirmer, 1900), by Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Composers of today; a comprehensive biographical and critical guide to modern composers of all nations (The H. W. Wilson company, 1936), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music for the millions : the encyclopedia of musical masterpieces / by David Ewen. (Arco Publishing Company, 1944), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. (Firmin Didot Frères., 1860), by François-Joseph Fétis and Arthur Pougin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Reich der Töne : Bildnisse und Schilderungen berühmter Künstler und Künstlerinnen. (W. Streit, 1881), by Alexander Flamant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The realm of tones. Three hundred and two portraits of the most celebrated European musicians with short biographical notices. (E. Schuberth & co., 1882), by Alexander Flamant, Mary F. S. Hervey, Frédéric Louis Ritter, and Frédéric Louis Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of musical compositions and composers : with a copious bibliography (G. Routledge & sons., ltd. ;, 1920), by W. Edmund Quarry (page images at HathiTrust)
• British musical biography: (S. S. Stratton, 1897), by James Duff Brown and Stephen Samuel Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tonkünstler-lexicon Berlin's von den ältesten zeiten bis auf die gegenwart. (L. Rauh, 1861), by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Philipp Justus Ledebur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (The Macmillan company, 1904), by George Grove and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (The Macmillan company; [etc., etc.], 1911), by George Grove, Charles N. Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt, and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Macmillan encyclopedia of music and musicians ... (The Macmillan company, 1938), by Albert E. Wier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalisches conversations-lexikon. : Eine encyklopädie der gesammten musikalischen wissenschaften für gebildete aller stände. (R. Oppenheim, 1880), by Hermann Mendel, Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, Alfred Dörffel, Franz Magnus Böhme, and August Reissmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The international cyclopedia of music and musicians (Dodd, Mead, 1975), by Oscar Thompson and Bruce Bohle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyklopädie der evangelischen Kirchenmusik. (C. Bertelsmann, 1888), by Salomon Kümmerle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Composers of yesterday (The H. W. Wilson company, 1937), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler, welches Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken musikalischer Schriftsteller, berühmter Komponisten, Sänger [etc.] ... enthält (A. Kühnel, 1812), by Ernst Ludwig Gerber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beethoven-handbuch (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926), by Theodor von Frimmel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de'più celebri artisti di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne (Tip. reale di guerra, 1814), by Giuseppe Bertini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundlage einer Ehren-pforte : woran der Tüchtigsten Capellmeister, Componisten, Musikgelehrten, Tonkünstler & c. Leben, Wercke, Verdienste & c. erscheinen sollen (Kommissionsverlag von L. Liepmannssohn, 1910), by Johann Mattheson and Max Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Feier des Wohlthäterfestes im Berlinischen Gymnasium zum grauen Kloster, Sonnabend, den 20. December 1856 ... (Gedruckt in der Nauck'schen Buchdruckerei, 1856), by Berlin (Germany) Berlinisches Gymnasium zum grauen Kloster, Sigismund Streit, and Heinrich Bellermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugo Riemanns Musik-Lexikon. (M. Hesse, 1916), by Hugo Riemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues universal-lexikon der tonkunst ... Unter mitwirkung der herren hofkapellmeister dr. Frz. Liszt ... dr. H. Marschner ... C. G. Reissiger ... dr. L. Spohr ... &c. &c. &c. bearb. und hrsg. (R. Schaefer, 1856), by Eduard Bernsdorf and Julius. 1810-1872 Schladebach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of music and musicians (C. Scribner's sons, 1888), by John Denison Champlin and William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by eminent writers, English and foreign (Macmillan, 1879), by George Grove, Adela Harriet Sophia Wodehouse, and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (Theodore Presser Co., 1922), by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario e bibliografia della musica del dottore Pietro Lichtenthal ... (A. Fontana, 1826), by Peter Lichtenthal and Johann Nikolaus Forkel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario e bibliografia della musica (A. Fontana, 1836), by Peter Lichtenthal and Johann Nikolaus Forkel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pronouncing dictionary and condensed encyclopedia of musical terms, instruments, composers, and important works. (Theodore Presser, 1881), by W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handlexikon der Tonkunst. (H. Schmidt, 1873), by Oscar Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new encyclopedia of music and musicians (The Macmillan company, 1931), by Waldo Selden Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musik-Lexikon. (M. Hesse, 1922), by Hugo Riemann and Alfred Einstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of music (Augener, 1896), by Hugo Riemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen wissenschaften, oder Universal-lexicon der tonkunst (F. H. Köhler, 1835), by Gustav Schilling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nordisk musik-lexikon (W. Hansen, 1888), by Henrick Vissing Schytte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians. (Schirmer, 1940), by Theodore Baker, Robert Geiger, Gilbert Chase, and Gustave Reese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musical masterworks; the encyclopedia of musical masterpieces. (Arco Pub. Co., 1954), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of pianists and composers for the pianoforte : with an appendix of manufacturers of the instrument (Novello, 1895), by E. Pauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in music ; a biographical record of contemporary musicians (Sir I. Pitman & Sons, 1913), by Henry Saxe Wyndham and Geoffrey l' Epine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in music and drama (H. P. Hanaford, 1914), by H. P. Hanaford and Dixie Hines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Umriss der ganzen musik-geschichte : Dargestellt in einem verzeichniss der bedeutenderen tonkünstler aller zeiten, nach ihren lebensjahren und mit augsbe ihrer werke chronologisch geordnet, nach den nationen und spochen abgetheilt, den gleichzeitigen historischen ereignissen zur seite gestellt und mit einem alphabetischen namensregister versehen (B. Schott's Söhne, [etc., etc.], 1851), by Carl Czerny (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of pianoforte music (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd. [etc.];, 1924), by Herbert Westerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The musiclover's handbook, containing (1) a pronouncing dictionary of musical terms and (2) biographical dictionary of musicians. (The University society, 1911), by John Clifford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pronouncing dictionary of musical terms : giving the meaning, derivation, and pronunciation ... of Italian, German, French, and other words; the names with date of birth and death and nationality of the leading musicians of the last two centuries; English vocabulary, with equivalents in Italian, German, and French; a list of the most celebrated operas, with the composers' names (T. Presser, 1896), by Hugh Archibald Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire de musique (Perrin et Cie, 1899), by Hugo Riemann and Georges Humbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bīografīi kompozitorov s IV-XX vi͡ek s portretami (Izdanīe K.A. Durnovo, 1904), by H. Pachulski and A. Ilʹinskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Répertoire encyclopédique du pianiste : analyse raisonnée d'oeuvres choisies pour le piano, du XVIe siècle, avec renseignements pratiques, degré de difficulté, nombre de pages, éditeur et prix ... (Hachette, 1900), by Hortense Parent (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by eminent writers, English and foreign. With illustrations and woodcuts. (Macmillan, 1879), by George Grove, Edmond R. Wodehouse, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse, and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians / ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. (The Macmillan company, 1904), by Charles Newell Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt, J. A. Fuller-Maitland, and George Grove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der Orgel-Literatur : ein Wegweiser für Organisten (Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag, 1924), by Franz Sauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handlexicon der Tonkunst (J. André, 1857), by Karl Gollmick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of pianists and composers for the pianoforte : with an appendix of manufacturers of the instrument (Novello, Ewer and Co., 1895), by E. Pauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in music : a biographical record of contemporary musicians (I. Pitman & Sons, 1915), by Geoffrey L'Epine and H. Saxe Wyndham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grove's Dictionary of music and musicians : American supplement : being the sixth volume of the complete work (The Macmillan Company, 1920), by Charles N. Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt, and George Grove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schuberth's woordenboek voor termen, gebruikelijk op muzikaal gebied : omgewerkt, verbeterd en aanmerkelijk vermeerded (Otto, 1891), by Julius Ferdinand Georg Schuberth and Jacques Hartog (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplément et complément (Firmin-Didot, 1881), by Arthur Pougin and François-Joseph Fétis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of pianists and composers for the pianoforte (Novello, Ewer and co., 1896), by Ernst Pauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathews and Liebling pronouncing and defining dictionary of music : with a supplement containing an English-Italian vocabulary, a list of prominent composers and artists (John Church company, 1925), by W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music lovers' cyclopedia : containing a pronouncing and defining dictionary of terms, instruments, &c., including a key to the pronunciation of sixteen languages; many charts; an explanation of the construction of music for the uninitiated; a pronouncing biographical dictionary; the stories of the operas; and numerous biographical and critical essays by distinguished authorities (Doubleday, Page for U. S. School of Music, 1912), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New encyclopedia of music and musicians (The Macmillan company, 1924), by Waldo Selden Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baltzell's dictionary of musicians : containing concise biographical sketches of musicians of the past and present : with the pronunciation of foreign names [and] with a supplement of over two hundred names (O. Ditson, 1914), by W. J. Baltzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The biographical dictionary of musicians (Blue Ribbon books, inc., 1940), by Rupert Hughes, Russell Kerr, and Deems Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stokes' encyclopedia of music and musicians, covering the entire period of musical history from the earliest times to the season of 1908-09 (F. A. Stokes company, 1908), by L. J. De Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire de musique. (Perrin, 1913), by Hugo Riemann, André Tessier, and Georges Humbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musik-Lexikon (M. Hesse, 1894), by Hugo Riemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. Supplément et complément (Firmin-Didot, 1881), by François-Joseph Fétis and Arthur Pougin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (Macmillan, 1935), by George Grove and H. C. Colles (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Italie musicale d'oggi; dizionario dei musicisti. (Ausonia, 1918), by Alberto De Angelis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of musicians, from the earliest ages to the present time. Comprising the most important biographical contents of the works of Gerber, Choron, and Fayolle, Count Orloff, Dr. Burney, Sir John Hawkins, &c. &c. together with upwards of a hundred original memoirs of the most eminent living musicians; and a Summary of the history of music ... (Printed for Sainsbury and Co., 1824), by John S. Sainsbury and Alexandre Choron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lexicon der toonkunst (P.N. van Kampen & zoon, 1883), by Henri Viotta (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chronological cyclopædia of musicians and musical events, from A.D. 320 to 1896 : containing biographical notices of upwards of 1000 of the chief musicians of all ages ... (Weekes, 1896), by C. Egerton Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (Macmillan, 1904), by George Grove and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire historique des musiciens, artistes et amateurs, morts ou vivans, qui se sont illustrés en une partie quelconque de la musique et des arts qui y sont relatifs ... (Chimot, 1817), by Alexandre Choron and François Joseph Marie Fayolle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lexikon der kirchlichen Tonkunst. (A. Weger, 1870), by Utto Kornmüller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete encyclopædia of music. (J. P. Jewett, 1854), by John Weeks Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical dictionary of musicians (Novello;, 1912), by William Hayman Cummings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurzgefasste Nachricht von ältern und neuern Liederverfassern (Im Verlag des Waisenhauses, 1771), by Johann Heinrich Grischow and Johann George Kirchner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1837), by François-Joseph Fétis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (Leroux, 1835), by François-Joseph Fétis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musiker-lexikon (C. Grüninger, 1890), by Robert Paul Johann Musiol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie, 1861), by François-Joseph Fétis and Arthur Pougin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musical masterworks; the encyclopedia of musical masterpieces. (Bonanza Books, 1954), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the Crosby Brown collection of musicians' portraits : Biographical sketches (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)
• Stokes' cyclopaedia of music and musicians, covering the entire period of musical history from the earliest times to the season of 1909-10 (W. & R. Chambers, 1911), by Leander Jan De Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (Firmin-Didot, 1875), by François-Joseph Fétis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon. Eine Encyklopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften. (L. Heimann;, 1870), by Hermann Mendel and August Reissmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften, oder Universal-Lexicon der Tonkunst. (F.H. Köhler, 1838), by Gustav Schilling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Tonkünstler des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts : ein kalendarisches Handbuch zur Kunstgeschichte (Kössling'sche Buchhandlung, 1849), by Carl Ferdinand Becker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete encyclopaedia of music. (O. Ditson, 1854), by John W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musik-Lexikon (M. Hesse, 1905), by Hugo Riemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (T. Presser Col, 1904), by George Grove and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete encyclopædia of music, elementary, technical, historical, biographical, vocal, and instrumental. (O. Ditson & Co.;, 1880), by John Weeks Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete encyclopædia of music (O. Ditson & co., 1854), by John Weeks Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (Macmillan, 1908), by George Grove, Eric Blom, and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diccionario técnico, histórico y biográfico de la música (B. Eslava, 1868), by Jose Parada y Barreto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music lovers' cyclopedia (Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co, for U.S. School of Music, 1912), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of music (Augener ltd., 1908), by Hugo Riemann and J. S. Shedlock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Who's who in music, International (Current literature publishing company, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rigaer theater- und tonkünstler-lexikon, nebst geschichte des Rigaer theaters und der musikalischen gesellschaft. (Commissions-verlag von N. Kymmel, 1890), by Moritz Rudolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario e bibliografia della musica (Fontana, 1826), by Peter Lichtenthal and Johann Nikolaus Forkel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographisch-bibliographisches Quellen-Lexikon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten der christlichen Zeitrechnung bis zur Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Musurgia, 1900), by Robert Eitner and Hermann Springer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. (H. Fournier, 1835), by François-Joseph Fétis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in music and drama (H.P. Hanaford, 1914), by Harry Prescott hanaford and Dixie Hines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of music and musicians (T. Presser, 1926), by Waldo Selden Pratt, J. A. Fuller-Maitland, George Grove, and Charles Newell Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• British musical biography : a dictionary of musical artists, authors, and composers born in Britain and its colonies (S.S. Stratton, 1897), by James Duff Brown and Stephen Samuel Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pronouncing dictionary of musical terms : giving the meaning, derivation, and pronunciation in phonetic spelling of Italian, German, French, and other words, the names with date of birth and death and nationality of the leading musicians of the last two centuries, English vocabulary, with equivalents in Italian, German, and French, a list of the most celebrated operas, with the composers' names (T. Presser, 1896), by Hugh Archibald Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of musicians (Oliver Ditson Company ;, 1918), by W. J. Baltzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical dictionary of musicians (G. Schirmer, 1919), by Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical dictionary of musicians (G. Schirmer, 1905), by Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical dictionary of musicians: with a bibliography of English writings on music. (A. Gardner, 1886), by James Duff Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical dictionary of musicians (Novello, Ewer & Co., 1892), by William Hayman Cummings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere e operisti (dizionario lirico 1541-1902) Elenco nominativo universale dei maestri compositori di opere teatrali, col prospetto cronologico dei loro principali lavori e catalogo alfabetico generale delle opere serie, semiserie, buffe, comiche e simili rappresentate ... dall'origine dell'opera in musica fino ai dì nostri, coll'indicazione di data e di luogo della prima rappresentazione, avuto speciale riguardo al repertorio italiano (Tipografia editrice R. Istituto sordomuti, 1903), by Carlo Dassori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of musicians. (Cocks, 1894), by Robert Cocks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of music, containing biographical notices of about 1700 prominent composers and over 3000 musical terms. ([Brooklyn, N.Y., 1895), by Otto Ebel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diccionario de la música, técnico, histórico, bio-bibliográfico. (S.F. de Sales, 1899), by Luisa Lacál (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handlexikon der Tonkunst (R. Oppenheim, 1882), by August Reissmann and Hermann Mendel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio di rettifiche ed aggiunte al supplemento Fétis, vol. I, pubblicato a Parigi per Firmano Didot, 1878, in-8, riferibilmente a maestri italiani e relative opere (Ricordi, 1878), by Giovanni Salvioli (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) (Macmillan and co., ltd., 1890), by George Grove, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse, and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of music and musicians (Scribner, 1893), by John Denison Champlin and William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spemanns goldenes Buch der Musik; eine Hauskunde für Jedermann (W. Spemann, 1900), by Wilhelm Spemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Index to the four volumes and catalogue of articles contributed by each writer (Macmillan, 1890), by Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les musiciens célèbres depuis le seizième siècle jusqu'à nos jours. (Hachette, 1887), by Félix Clément (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wetenschappelijk en biographisch woordenboek der toonkunst. (Roelants, 1890), by Eduard A. Melchior (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketches of eminent musical composers. (O. Ditson and company, 1876), by L. B. Urbino (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Italia musicale d'oggio. Dizionario dei musicisti. Compositori--direttori d'orchestra--concertisti--insegnanti--can-tanti--scrittori musicali--librettisti--liutai--ecc. (Con un' appendice) (Ausonia, 1922), by Alberto De Angelis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of music and musicians. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1899), by John Denison Champlin and William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosités de l'histoire musicale des anciens Pays-bas (Belgique, Hollande et nord de la France) d'après des documents inédits. Avec planches et table alphabétique. (Librairie artistique; [etc., etc.], 1867), by Edmond vander Straeten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musicians of all times, a concise dictionary of musical biography. (J. Curwen, 1889), by David Baptie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of musical information. (O. Ditson & Company;, 1876), by John Weeks Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalisches Conversations-lexikon : eine Encyklopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften für Gebildete aller Stände (List & Francke, 1890), by August Reissmann and Hermann Mendel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire biographique des musiciens : et un vocabulaire de termes musicaux (Mont-Sainte-Anne, 1922), by Sisters of St. Anne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften; oder, Universal-Lexicon der Tonkunst. (F.H. Koehler, 1835), by Gustav Schilling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete encyclopædia of music : elementary, technical, historical, biographical, vocal, and instrumental (Oliver Ditson & Co. ;, 1852), by John Weeks Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of music and musicians (Brooklyn, N.Y. : F.H. Chandler, 1902), by Otto Ebel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kleines Tonkünstlerlexikon : enthaltend kurze Biographien der Tonkünstler früherer und neuer Zeit (C. Merseburger, 1910), by Paul Frank and Carl Kipke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (Macmillan, 1904), by George Grove and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pronouncing dictionary and condensed encyclopedia of musical terms, instruments, composers, and important works. (T. Presser, 1895), by W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopaedic dictionary of music (Theo. Presser, 1908), by Hugo Riemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pronouncing dictionary of music (T. Presser, 1903), by W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dictionary of music and musicians (Macmillan, 1889), by Adela Harriet Sophia Wodehouse, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, and George Grove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Panthéon des musiciens; tableau chronologique & nécrologique des plus remarquables compositeurs, théoiciens, professeurs, ecrivains, chanteurs, cantatrices, virtuoses, chefs d'orchestre, luthiers et facteurs d'instruments, qui ont vécu depuis le IVme siécle jusqu'à nos jours ... (Paul Decourcelle, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dictionary of British musicians, from the earliest times to the present (Jarrold and Sons, 1895), by Frederick James Crowest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of music and musicians. (Presser, 1904), by George Grove (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musik-Taschenbuch, für den täglichen Gebrauch. (Steingräber Verlag, in the 1880s) (page images at HathiTrust)
• International who's who in music (Current Literature Pub. Co., 1918), by César Saerchinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (Firmin Didot, 1878), by François-Joseph Fétis and Arthur Pougin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of music and biographical dictionary, containing concise sketches of over 2000 prominent composers and explanations of more than 3000 musical terms (Chandler-Ebel Music Co., 1902), by Otto Ebel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice historique et raisonnée des architectes, peintres, graveurs, sculpteurs, musiciens, acteurs et danseurs, imprimeurs, horlogers & méchaniciens (Vincent, 1776), by abbé de Fontenai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften : oder Universal-lexicon der Tonkunst (F. H. Köhler, 1840), by Gustav Schilling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere e operisti (dizionario lirico 1541-1902) : Elenco nominativo universale dei maestri compositori di opere teatrali, col prospetto cronologico dei loro principali lavori e catalogo alfabetico generale delle opere serie, semiserie, buffe, comiche e simili rappresentate ... dall'origine dell'opera in musica fino ai dì nostri, coll'indicazione di data e di luogo della prima rappresentazione, avuto speciale riguardo al repertorio italiano (Arnaldo Forni, 1979), by Carlo Dassori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musical biography ; or, Memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent musical composers and writers, who have flourished in the different countries of Europe during the last three centuries. (Pub. for H. Colburn by R. Bentley, 1834), by William Bingley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new encyclopedia of music and musicians (Macmillan, 1943), by Waldo Selden Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pronouncing musical dictionary; containing all Italian, German, and French terms in ordinary use (T. Presser, 1896), by Hugh Archibald Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of music and musicians : (A.D. 1450-1880) (Macmillan, 1879), by George Grove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music lovers' cyclopedia: containing a pronouncing and defining dictionary of terms, instruments, &c., including a key to the pronunciation of sixteen languages; many charts; an explanation of the construction of music for the uninitiated; a pronouncing biographical dictionary; the stories of the operas; and numerous biographical and critical essays by distinguished authorities (Doubleday, Page, & co., 1913), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (T. Presser, 1926), by George Grove, J. A. Fuller-Maitland, Charles Newell Boyd, and Waldo Selden Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allmänt musiklexikon (Wahlström & Widstrand, 1927), by Tobias Norlind (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Écrits de musiciens (XVe-XVIIIe seècles) (Mercvre de France, 1912), by J.-G. Prod'homme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Living Kentucky composers. ([Lexington], 1955), by University of Kentucky. Department of University Extension (page images at HathiTrust)
• Klavier-Lexikon : Elementarlehre für Klavierspieler, Anleitung zur Aussprache des Italienischen, Tabelle der Abkürzungen in Wort und Notenschrift, Literaturverzeichnis, ausführliches Fremdwörter-, Sach- und Personal-Lexikon (Virtuosen, Komponisten, Pädagogen, Methodiker und Schriftsteller des Klaviers) (C.F. Kahnt, 1918), by Walter Niemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who is who in music 1951 (Who is Who in Music, Inc., Ltd. [etc.], 1927), by J. T. H. Mize, Sigmund Spaeth, and Alfred V. Frankenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogo con brevi cenni biografici e sussinte descrizioni degli autografi e documenti di celebri o distinti musicisti (Societa tipografica già compsitori, 1888), by Emilia Succi and Egidio Francesco Succi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeine litteratur der musik; oder, Anleitung zur kenntniss musikalischer bücher, welche von den ältesten bis auf die neusten zeiten bey den Griechen, Römern und den meisten neuern europäischen nationen sind geschrieben worden. Systematisch geordnet, und nach veranlassung mit anmerkungen und urtheilen begleitet (Schwickert, 1792), by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Johannes Tinctoris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften, oder Universal-lexicon der Tonkunst. (F.H. Köhler, 1835), by Gustav Schilling (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cyclopædic dictionary of music ... (J. Curwen & sons, ltd. [etc.];, 1925), by Ralph Dunstan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of music and musicians (Macmillan, 1894), by George Grove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians (T. Presser Co., 1926), by Charles Newell Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt, J. A. Fuller-Maitland, and George Grove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southeastern Composers League catalogue. (Tritone Press, 1962), by Southeastern Composers' League (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 4: Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne (in Italian), by Giuseppe Bertini (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 3: Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne (in Italian), by Giuseppe Bertini (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 2: Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne (in Italian), by Giuseppe Bertini (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 1: Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne (in Italian), by Giuseppe Bertini (Gutenberg ebook)

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