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• Musical selections from A copper complication (White-Smith, 1900), by Mabel W. Daniels and Rebecca Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman's number. (Theodore Presser, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman's number : prize essays. (Oliver Ditson Co., 1903), by Thomas Haynes Bayly, Mary Knight Wood, Margaret Ruthven Lang, L. E. Orth, and Mary Helen Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women composers : a biographical handbook of women's work in music (Chandler-Ebel, 1913), by Otto Ebel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Augusta Holmes, une musicienne Versaillaise. (Versailles, Paris, 1921), by René Pichard du Page (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Women in music and law. (Author's Pub. Co., 1895), by Florence Edith Clinton Sutro (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lady hymn writers (T. Nelson, 1892), by Emma Raymond Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman's Work in Music, by Arthur Elson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Emma di Rosburgo (Dalla tipografia Flautina, 1835), by Gaetano Rossi and Carolina Uccelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ugo : dramma lirico in quattro atti (Coi tipi di Luigi Brambilla, contrada dell'Agnello N. 958, 1857), by Carlotta Ferrari (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sofia : dramma lirico in tre atti (Tip. Fratelli Civalleri, via Gioberti 6, 1866), by Carlotta Ferrari (page images at HathiTrust)

• The works of Charles Lamb (Widdleton, 1878), by Charles Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Great Musicians (London: E. Grant Richards, 1908), by Ernest Oldmeadow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Unfinished portraits; stories of musicians and artists (C. Scribner's sons, 1916), by Jennette Barbour Perry Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Century library of music (The Century co., 1900), by Bernardus Boekelman, Fanny Morris Smith, and Ignace Jan Paderewski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous composers and their works (J. B. Millet company, 1891), by Karl Klauser, Theodore Thomas, and John Knowles Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern music and musicians. (The University Society, Inc., 1918), by Ignace Jan Paderewski and Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American symphony orchestra; a social history of musical taste. (Indiana University Press, 1951), by John Henry Mueller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits and silhouettes of musicians. (Dodd, Mead and company, 1897), by Camille Bellaigue and Ellen Orr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Composers eleven. (G. Braziller, 1959), by Neville Cardus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heritage of music; essays ... (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1927), by Hubert J. Foss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charakterbilder aus der neueren geschichte der tonkunst. (C. Merseburger, 1863), by Ferdinand Gleich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music masters in miniature (C. Scribner's sons, 1933), by George Clarence Jell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary composers. (AMS Press, 1973), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hector Berlioz, selections from his letters, and aesthetic, humorous, and satirical writings (H. Holt and company, 1879), by Hector Berlioz and William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schubert (J.M. Dent & Co.;, 1905), by Edmondstoune Duncan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The third book of the great musicians; a further course in appreciation for young readers (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1923), by Percy A. Scholes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of musical knowledge : the history, technique, and appreciation of music, together with lives of the great composers, for music-lovers, students and teachers (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lighter classics in music (Arco Pub. Co., 1961), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust)
• French music of today (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1919), by G. Jean-Aubry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musikalische charakterköpfe. (J.G. Cotta, 1861), by Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur musik. Sechzehn aufsätze (Gebrüder Paetel, 1892), by Philipp Spitta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Welche Einflüsse hatte die Wiederbelebung der älteren Musik im 19. Jahrhundert auf die deutschen Komponisten? (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900), by Richard Hohenemser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The world of music (Brentano, 1892), by Anna de Brémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Master musicians; a book for players, singers & listeners. (T.N. Foulis, 1913), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• André Cardinal Destouches : (1672-1749) : Ein beitrag zur französischen operngeschichte ([publisher not identified], 1909), by Kurt Dulle (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)
• Famous composers and their works. New series. (J. B. Millet, 1900), by Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern music and musicians for vocalists. (The University Society, 1918), by Nicholas De Vore and Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern music and musicians. (The University Society, Inc., 1918), by Ignace Jan Paderewski and Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kʻristafor Kara-Murza : nra keankʻě ew gortsunēutʻiwně (Mkhitʻarean Tparan, 1925), by Ṛuben Tʻerlemezyan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bīografīi kompozitorov s IV-XX vi͡ek s portretami (Izdanīe K.A. Durnovo, 1904), by H. Pachulski and A. Ilʹinskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Impressions that remained : memoirs (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919), by Ethel Smyth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some musicians of former days (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1915), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Master musicians : a book for players, singers and listeners (A. C. McClurg, 1911), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classisches und Romantisches aus der Tonwelt (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1892), by La Mara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Muziek : proza-keur (Em. Querido, 1924), by Is. Querido (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Grieg to Brahms : studies of some modern composers and their art (Outlook, 1903), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuale storico del violinista; corredato da un sunto cronologisco storico dei fabbricatori di strumenti d' arco, de' più famosi esecutori, dei migliori compositori di musica instrumentale ... (G. Venturini, 1894), by Giuseppe Branzoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some musicians of former days : Shakespeare: his music and song (Waverly Book Co., 1920), by Romain Rolland and A. H. Moncur-Sime (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories from the operas : with short biographies of the composers, third series (T.W. Laurie, 1910), by Gladys Davidson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A survey of contemporary music (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1927), by Cecil Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lure of music, picturing the human side of great composers, with stories of their inspired creations (Harper & brothers, 1922), by Olin Downes and Columbia Graphophone Company (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Master musicians; a book for players, singers and listeners (T. N. Foulis, 1911), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great composers and their work. (L. C. Page and Co., 1910), by Louis Charles Elson (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, and critical and biographical sketches of the contemporary musical leaders in each country (L.C. Page & company, 1914), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern musicians; a book for players, singers and listeners (T. N. Foulis, 1914), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous composers (T. Y. Crowell & co., 1902), by Nathan Haskell Dole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Derniers souvenirs d'un musicien. (M. Lévy Frères, 1859), by Adolphe Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Bach bis Wagner. Zur Geschichte der Musik. (J. Guttentag, 1861), by August Reissmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great musical composers; German, French, and Italian. (W. Scott, 1889), by George T. Ferris and Elizabeth A. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musical composers and their works. For the use of schools and students in music. (Roberts Bros., 1878), by Sarah Tytler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugo Wolf (Methuen, 1907), by Ernest Newman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wagner (J. M. Dent & co.;, 1899), by Charles A. Lidgey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My thoughts on music and musicians (Chapman and Hall, 1892), by H. Heathcote Statham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wegweiser für Opernfreunde. Erläuternde Besprechung der Wichtigsten auf dem Repertoire befindlichen Opern nebst Biographien der Componisten. (H. Matthes, 1857), by Ferdinand Gleich (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dictionary of Pianists and Composers for the Pianoforte : With an appendix of manufacturers of the instrument (Novello, Ewer, 1895), by Ernst Pauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world of music (Brentano's, 1892), by Anna Dunphy Brémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to homes of great musicians. (Roycrofters, 1901), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The International library of music for home and studio (The University Society, 1925), by Nicholas De Vore and Charles Frederick Dennée (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous composers and their music (Merrill, 1901), by Karl Klauser, John Knowles Paine, and Theodore Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-lives of master musicians (Harrap, 1925), by Harriette Moore Brower (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians ... (The Roycrofters, 1901), by Elbert Hubbard and Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musiciens d'aujourd'hui. (Hachette et cie, 1912), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of the great musicians; a course in appreciation for young readers (H. Milford, 1920), by Percy Alfred Scholes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Componisten der neueren Zeit. Adam, Auber, Beethoven [et al.] in Biographien geschildert von W. Neumann. (Balde, 1855), by William Neumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalisches und Persönliches (W. Spemann, 1899), by Bernhard Scholz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The world's great men of music (F. A. Stokes co., 1922), by Harriette Brower and Harriette Brower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neuere Meister ... (H. Haessel, 1886), by Otto Gumprecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous composers and their music. (J. B. Millet company, 1901), by Karl Klauser, John Knowles Paine, and Theodore Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Grieg to Brahms. (AMS Press, 1971), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les musiciens et la musique (Calmann-Lévy, 1903), by Hector Berlioz and André Hallays (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories from the operas : with short biographies of the composers, second series (T.W. Laurie, 1907), by Gladys Davidson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laurel winners : portraits and silhouettes of modern composers. (The J. Church company, 1900), by William Francis Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• First studies in music biography. (T. Presser, 1901), by Thomas Tapper (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 great composers (Lothrop Pub. Co., 1894), by Hezekiah Butterworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half hours with the best composers (Boston : J.B. Millet Company, [1894-1895], 1894), by Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser, and Historical Sheet Music Collections of Houghton Library and the Harvard Theatre Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great German composers. (D. Appleton and company, 1884), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great modern composers. (H. W. Gray Company, 1918), by Daniel Gregory Mason and Mary L. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Grieg to Brahms : studies of some modern composers and their art (Macmillan, 1908), by Daniel Gregory Mason, Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms, and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer, and our musical life in colonial times. ([Philadelphia?, 1919), by O. G. Sonneck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der geistlichen Musik (Gustav Schloessmann's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1903), by Hermann Barth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masters of music; their lives and works. (Dodd, Mead and company, 1901), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unsere Musikklassiker : sechs biographische Lebensbilder (H. Schmidt & C. Günther, 1880), by Elise Vogel Polko (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great tone-poets: being short memoirs of the greater musical composers. (Richard Bentley, 1875), by Frederick James Crowest (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)
• Geat composers (Brentano's, 1902), by Anna Dunphy Brémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musiciens du passé, du présent et de l'avenir (Calmann Lévy, 1881), by Henri Blaze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les musiciens célèbres depuis le seizième siècle jusqu'à nos jours. (Hachette, 1887), by Félix Clément (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great German composers, Bach to Dvôrak (D. Appleton and company, 1899), by George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Grieg to Brahms; studies of some modern composers and their art (The Outlook company, 1902), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les clavecinistes de 1637 à 1790. Histoire du clavecin, portraits et biographies des célèbres clavecinistes, avec exemples et notes sur le style et l'exécution de leurs œuvres ... (Heugel & cie, 1867), by Amédée Méreaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of great composers (George Routledge & Sons, 1887), by C. Hubert H. Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great in music; a systematic course of study in the music of classical and modern composers. First year. Prepared for the student clubs of the music extension course. (Music Magazine Pub. Co., 1900), by W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of musical biography. Short notices of the various schools of composers, for the use of general readers and schools (G. Bell, 1886), by C. A. Caspar and E. M. Patmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalische Studienköpfe (H. Schmidt & C. Günther, 1878), by Ida Maria Lipsius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers on literature and art (Wiley & Putnam, 1846), by Margaret Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostrophes : a book of tributes to masters of music (The Grafton Press, 1910), by Alfred Kreymborg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alla breve; from Bach to Debussy (G. Schirmer, inc., 1921), by Carl Engel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians (Roycrofters, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherubini : memorials illustrative of his life and work. (Cornish brothers limited ;, 1905), by Edward Bellasis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Grieg to Brahms; studies of some modern composers and their art (The Outlook company, 1903), by Daniel Gregory Mason (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)
• 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. (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 (Wells Gardner, Darton & co., ltd., 1908), by Francis Jameson Rowbotham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of Russian music (Chatto & Windus, 1915), by Arthur Pougin and Lawrence Haward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The letters of Robert Schumann (E.P. Dutton, 1907), by Robert Schumann, Hannah Bryant, and Karl Storck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musicians of to-day (H. Holt, 1919), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Brahms, the Herzogenberg correspondence (J. Murray, 1909), by Johannes Brahms, Hannah Bryant, Max Kalbeck, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, and Heinrich von Herzogenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romantic composers. (Macmillan, 1924), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Composers and authors. ([Wichita? Kan.], 1962), by Mu Phi Epsilon and Esther Wiedower (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyage musical aux pays du passé (Edouard-Joseph, 1919), by Romain Rolland and Démétrius Emmanuel Galanis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern music and musicians for vocalists. (The University Society, 1918), by Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masters of music. (Review and Herald, 1948), by Arvid C. Anderson (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. (The Musical Manual Pub. Co., 1890), by W. M. Derthick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to the homes of great musicians (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1909), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zwei musikalische Nachlasshefte. (Drodtleff, 1800), by August Wilhelm Ambros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz-1819-1863 (Calmann-Lévy, 1879), by Hector Berlioz and Daniel Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalische Studienköpfe (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1912), by La Mara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Make way for music (E. P. Dutton & company, inc., 1946), by Syd Cohen Skolsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Liszt : eine Biographie (Schuster & Loeffler, 1911), by Julius Kapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• French horn music literature with composers biographical sketches. (Sansone Musical Instruments, 1962), by Lorenzo Sansone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zeitgenössische Tondichter. Studien und Skizzen. (Rossberg'schen Buchhandlung, 1888), by Max Chop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres à son éditeur (Durand, 1927), by Claude Debussy and Jacques Durand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Composers in love and marriage. (London : John Long, limited, 1913., 1913), by J. Cuthbert Hadden (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)
• Carlo Gesualdo : Prince of Venosa, musician and murderer (L. MacVeagh : Dial Press, 1926), by Cecil Gray and Peter Warlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our familiar songs and their authors (H.M. Caldwell Co., Publishers, 1896), by Helen Kendrick Johnson and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (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)
• Beethovens Briefe. (Insel-Verlag, 1924), by Ludwig van Beethoven and Albert Leitzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musiciens d'autrefois ... (Hachette et cie, 1912), by Romain Rolland (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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