Monographs / Surveys (English) - PL`s list

List of Monographs & Surveys 

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A Natural History of the Piano - Stuart Isacoff - 2012 mobi epub pdf
A Schoenberg Reader. Documents of a Life - Joseph Auner - 2003 pdf
Arthur Schnabel. A Biography - C.Saerchinger - 1957.pdf
At the Piano. Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists - C.Benser - 2011.pdf
Australian Chamber Music with Piano - Larry Sitsky - 2011.pdf
Australian Piano Music of the Twentieth Century - L.Sitsky - 2005.pdf

Benjamin Britten. A Bio-Bibliography - S.R.Craggs - 2001.pdf
Berlioz Studies - Peter Bloom - 1992.pdf
Britten's Musical Language - P.Rupprecht - 2002 .pdf
Britten's Unquiet Pasts - H.Wiebe - 2012.pdf
Busoni as Pianist - Grigory Kogan - 2010

Camille Saint-Saens - R.Nichols - 2008.pdf
Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile Interpreting the Music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág, and Sándor Veress - 2011
Classical Form - W.E.Caplin - 1998.pdf
Confronting Silence Selected Writings - T.Takemitsu - 1995.epub
Conversing with Cage - R.Kostelanetz - 1988.pdf

Early Keyboard Instruments. A Practical Guide - D.Rowland - 2004.pdf
Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music - R.Marshall - 2003.pdf

French Pianism: A Historical Perspective - C.Timbrell - 1999.epub
From Paris to Peoria, How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland - R.A.Lott - 2003.pdf

Handel. The Man & His Music - J.Keates - 2009.epub
Hans Von Bülow: A Life and Times - A.Walker - 2010.pdf
Hess, Sacred Passions - The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla - 2008.pdf
Holst: The Planets (Cambridge Music Handbooks) - Richard Greene - 1995.pdf
How the Piano Came to Be - G.E.Howell - 1868 epub txt

Keyboard Music Before 1700 - Routledge - 2003 .pdf
King of Ragtime Scott Joplin and His Era - E.A.Berlin - 1994.epub mobi

Lateness and Brahms - M.Notley - 2006.pdf
Life & letters of P.Tchaikovsky - M.Tchaikovsky - 1906.epub mobi pdf

Mendelssohn: A Life in Music - R.L.Todd - 2005.pdf
Moriz Rosenthal in Word And Music - M.Mitchell & A.Evans - 2005.pdf
Music and Manners in France and Germany. Volume 1 - H.F.Chorley - 2009.pdf
Music and Manners in France and Germany. Volumes 2 - H.F.Chorley - 2009.pdf
Musical instruments from the Renaissance to the 19th century - S.Paganelli - 1970.pdf

One Handed. A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand - D.L.Patterson - 1999.pdf

Passion For The Piano - Judith Oringer - 1983.pdf
Piano Roles - A New History of the Piano - 2001.pdf
Pianos and Their Makers (V. 1) (1911-13).pdf

Rudolf Serkin. A Life - S.Lehmann & M.Faber - 2003.pdf

Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of de Falla - C.A.Hess - 2005.pdf
Samuel Barber. The Composer and His Music - B.Heyman - 1994.pdf
Silvio Scionti Remembering a Master Pianist and Teacher - J.Guerry - 1991.epub
Style and Idea - Arnold Schonberg - 1950.pdf

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs - A.Hammel & R.Hourigan - 2011.pdf
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Expanded Edition) - C.Rosen - 1998.djvu pdf
The Companion to The Mechanical Muse, The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music - D.Carew - 2007.pdf
The Complete Classical Music Guide - DK Publishing.pdf
The Historical Performance of Music. An Introduction - Cambridge - 2003.pdf
The Life of Handel - Victor Schoelcher - 2009.pdf
The Magic Touch. Piano Music by Mind Training - M.Jaëll - 2004.pdf
The Music of Toru Takemitsu - P.Burt - 2001.pdf
The New Grove Early Keyboard Instruments - E.M.Ripin Norton - 1989.pdf
The Organ As a Mirror of Its Time: North European Reflections, 1610-2000 - K.J.Snyder - 2002.pdf
The Pianist - W.Szpilman & W.Hosenfeld - 2002.pdf mobi epub
The Pianoforte And Its Music - H.E.Krehbiel - 1911.pdf
The Possessor and the Possessed. Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius - P.Kivy - 2001.pdf
The Romantic Generation (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) - C.Rosen - 1998.djvu pdf epub
The Songs of Edvard Grieg - Beryl Foster - 2007.pdf
The Tragic and the Ecstatic - The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde - E.Chafe - 2005.pdf
The Young Musician's Survival Guide: Tips from Teens and Pros - A.Nathan - 2008.pdf
Vivaldi (Master Musicians) - Michael Talbot - 2000

Composers

J.S.Bach 

About Bach - G.S Butler - 2008
An Introduction to Bach Studies - D.R.Melamed & M.Marissen - 1998.pdf
Analysis of J.S. Bach's forty-eight fugues - E.Prout - 1910.pdf
Analysis of J.S.Bach`s preludes & fugues. Part 1 - Dr.H.Riemann - 1890.pdf
Analysis of J.S.Bach`s preludes & fugues. Part 2 - Dr.H.Riemann - 1890.pdf
Aspects of Unity in J.S.Bach's Partitas and Suites - An Analytical Study -  D.W.Beach - 2005.pdf
Bach Interpretation Articulation Marks in Primary Sources of J.S.Bach (Cambridge Musical Texts & Monographs) - John Butt - 1990
Bach (Master Musicians Series) - M.Boyd - 2001.pdf
Bach Music in the Castle of Heaven - E.Gardiner - 2013.epub
Bach The Goldberg Variations -  P.F.Williams - 2003.pdf
Bach's Changing World Voices in the Community - C.K.Baron - 2008.pdf
Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity  - K.Berger - 2007.pdf
Bach's Well-tempered Clavier: The 48 Preludes and Fugues - D.Ledbetter - 2002.pdf
Bach Works Catalogue - Schmieder's Bach-Werke-Verzeichni
Forty-Eight Preludes & Fugues of Bach - C.Gray - 1934 .pdf
J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales - R.Stinson - 2001.pdf
J.S. Bach: A Life in Music - P.Williams - 2007.pdf
Johann Sebastian Bach His life, art, and work - J.N.Forkel - 1920.pdf
Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750  Vol.I-3 - P.Spitta – 1880.pdf
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician - C.Wolff - 2001.epub
Mystical Love in the German Baroque - Theology, Poetry, Music (Contextual Bach Studies) - I. van Elferen - 2009.pdf
New Approach To Piano Transcriptions And Interpretation Of Johann Sebastian Bach's Music - A.Briskier - 1958.pdf
The Art of Fugue, Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750 -J.Kerman - 2005.pdf
The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach Vol.1:1695-1717 - R.D.P.Jones - 2007.pdf
The Keyboard Music of J.S.Bach - D.Schulenberg - 2006.pdf
The Organ Music of J.S.Bach - P.Williams - 2004.pdf
The Organs of J.S. Bach A Handbook - C.Wolff, M.Zepf - 2012.pdf
The New Bach Reader. A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents by Arthur Mendel - 1999

Beethoven

A companion to Beethoven's pianoforte sonatas, bar-by-bar analysis - D.F.Tovey, B.Cooper - 1998.djvu
Analysis of form in Beethoven's sonatas - H.A.Harding - 1901.pdf
Beethoven. Anguish and Triumph - Jan Swafford - 2014
Beethoven - B.Cooper - 2008.pdf
Beethoven - W.Kinderman - 2009.pdf
Beethoven after Napoleon Political Romanticism in the Late Works - S.Rumph - 2004.pdf
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803 - T.De Nora - 1997.pdf
Beethoven The Ninth Symphony - D.Benjamin - 2003.pdf
Beethoven the Pianist - T.Skowroneck - 2010..pdf
Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context - A.Watson - 2012.pdf
Beethoven's Immortal Beloved: Solving the Mystery - E.Walden - 2011 .pdf
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 - (Dodo Press).pdf
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1&2 - Tr. by L.Wallace -.2004 .epub
Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas a guide for students and amateurs - E.Fischer.pdf.pdf
Beethoven's Works for Violin and Piano - E.Heeney - 2007.pdf
Beethoven, A Character Study together with Wagner's Indebtedness to Beethoven - G.A.Fischer - 2005.epub
Beethoven: The 'Moonlight' and other Sonatas, Op.27 & Op.31 - T.Jones - 1999.pdf
Beethoven: The Universal Composer - Edmund Morris - 2005 .pdf
Bold Composer - A Story About Ludwig Van Beethoven - J.P.Pinkerton.pdf
Introduction To The Interpretation Of The Beethoven Piano Works - A.B.Marx - 1895.pdf
Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven Selected Writings on Theory and Method - Cambridge - 1998.pdf
Musical Meaning in Beethoven - Markedness, Correlation and Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics) Robert S. Hatten - 1994 pdf
Musical Meaning in Beethoven - R.S.Hatten - 1994.pdf
The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience - K Drake - 1994
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 - H.Sachs - 2011.epub

Chopin 

A handbook of Chopin's works - G.C.A.Jonson - 1905.pdf
Chopin. The Piano Concertos - J.Rink - 1997.pdf
Frederic Chopin; his life, letters, and works (1879) epub mobi pdf
Chopin and the G minor Ballade - D.Björling - 2002.pdf
Chopin. The composer - E.S.Kelly - 1913.pdf
Chopin The Man and His Music - J.Huneke - 2008.pdf
Chopin Through His Contemporaries - P.Azoury - 1999.pdf
Chopin's greatest works - J.Kleczynski - 1896.pdf
Chopin's letters - Translated by E.L.Voynich - 1931.pdf
Chopin's Polish Ballade Op.38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom - J.D.Bellman - 2010.pdf
Chopin. The Four Ballades - J.Samson - 1992.pdf
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - F.Niecks - 1902.pdf
Fredric Chopin, A Research and Information Guide - W.Smialek - 1999.pdf
Life of Chopin - Franz Liszt - Tr.J. Pychowski.pdf
Mastering the Chopin Etudes (excerpt) - A.Kogosowsky - 2010.pdf
Mastering the Chopin Etudes and other essays - A.Whiteside - 1969.pdf
Music in Chopin's Warsaw - H.Goldberg - 2008.pdf
Rediscovering F.Chopin’s Trois Nouvelles Études - A monograph by Q.-S.Xian - 2002.pdf
The Chopin Technic - H.Levey - 1908.pdf

Debussy

Cambridge Companion to Debussy - S.Trezise - 2003.pdf
Dawn of the Belle Epoque The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends - M.McAuliffe - 2011.pdf
Debussy and the Fragment - L.Cummins - 2006.pdf
Debussy in proportion - A musical Analysis - R.Howat - 1981.pdf
Debussy La Mer (Cambridge Music Handbooks) - S.Trezise - 2005.pdf
Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht - M.G.Cobb - 2005.pdf
Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy - J.Day-O'Connell - 2010.pdf
The Cambridge Companion to Debussy - S.Trezise - 2003.pdf
The Piano Music of Claude Debussy - A.Cortot - 1922.pdf

Gershwin

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - D.Schiff - 1997.pdf
The George Gershwin Reader - R.Wyatt & J.A.Johnson - 2007.pdf

Granados

Enrique Granados. A Bio-Bibliography - C.A.Hess - 1991.pdf
Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano - W.A.Clark - 2011.pdf

Haydn

Haydn Studies - W.D.Sutcliffe - 2006.pdf
Joseph Haydn Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis - Anthony van Hoboken - 1957 Vol.1-3.pdf

Liszt

Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volumes 1 & 2.pdf
Franz Liszt A Guide to Research - M.Saffle - 1998.pdf
Franz Liszt and His World - C.H.Gibbs, D.Gooley - 2006.pdf
Liszt Sonata in B Minor - K.Hamilton - 2007.pdf
The Liszt Companion - B.Arnold - 2002.pdf
Virtuosity and the Musical Work - The Transcendental Studies of Liszt - J.Samson - 2004.pdf

Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn in Performance - S.Reichwald - 2009

Mozart

A Life in Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Penguin books - 2006.epub
Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia - 2006.pdf
Conscise analysis of Mozart's 22 piano sonatas - J.Salisbury - 1917.pdf
Constanze Mozart: After the Requiem - H.Gärtner - 1991.epub
Life of  Mozart Vol.1-3 - O.Jahn - 1859.pdf
Mozart (Master Musicians Series) - J.Rushton - 2009.pdf
Mozart - E.J.Breakspeare - 1902.pdf
Mozart and Masonry - P.Nettl - 1976.pdf
Mozart The Early Years 1756-1781- Stanley Sadie - 2005
Mozart's Piano Sonatas: Contexts, Sources, Style - J.Irving - 1999.pdf
Mozart's Viennese Instrumental Music - S.P.Keefe - 2007.pdf
Mozart: A Life - M.Solomon - 1996.pdf
The Age of Mozart and Beethoven - G.Pestelli - 1984.pdf
The Cambridge Companion to Mozart - S.P.Keefe  - 2003.pdf
The Life of Mozart: Including his Correspondence - E.Holmes - 2009.pdf
The Mostly Mozart Guide to Mozart - C.Vigeland - 2009 .pdf
Understanding Mozart's Piano Sonatas - J.Irving - 2010.pdf

Prokofiev

Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas - B.Berman - 2008.pdf
Prokofiev's Soviet Years - S.Morrison - 2009.pdf

Schoenberg

A Schoenberg Reader. Documents of a Life - Joseph Auner - 2003
Schoenberg (Master Musicians) - M. MacDonald - 2008 .pdf
Schoenberg's Musical Imagination (Music in the Twentieth Century) - Michael Cherlin - 2007
Style and Idea - Arnold Schonberg - 1950 pdf
The Arnold Schoenberg Companion - W.B.Bailey - 1998.pdf
The Arnold Schoenberg Companion - W.B.Bailey - 1998

Schubert

Analyzing Schubert - S.Clark - 2011.pdf
Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms - J.Daverio - 2002.pdf
Franz Schubert, the man and his circle (1935) pdf mobi epub
Franz Schubert. A Biography - E.N.McKay - 1998.pdf
Franz Schubert and His World - Christopher H. Gibbs, Morten Slavik - 2014.epub
Goethe and Schubert: The Unseen Bond - K.S.Whitton - 1999
Our Schubert. His Enduring Legacy - D.Schroeder - 2009.pdf
Returning Cycles. Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas - C.Fisk - 2001.pdf
Schubert in the European Imagination, Vol.1 - S.Messing - 2008.pdf
Schubert's Fingerprints Studies in the Instrumental Works - Susan Wollenberg - 2011

Schumann

Fantasy Pieces. Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann - H.Krebs - 1999.pdf
Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age" - J.Daverio - 1997.pdf
Schumann - E.F.Jensen - 2001.pdf
Schumann Fantasie, Op.17 - N.Marston - 1992.pdf

Shostakovich

A Shostakovich Casebook (Russian Music Studies) - Malcolm Hamrick Brown - 2004
A Shostakovich Companion - Michael Mishra - 2008
Dmitri Shostakovich A Catalogue, Bibliography and Discography, 3rd edition  - Derek C. Hulme - 2002.pdf
Dmitri Shostakovich Catalogue. The First Hundred Years and Beyond - D.C.Hulme - 2010.pdf
Dmitri Shostakovich. Pianist - S.Moshevich - 2004
Shostakovich and His World (Bard Music Festival) - Laurel E. Fay - 2004
Shostakovich and Stalin The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator - Solomon Volkov - 2004
Shostakovich in Context - Rosamund Bartlett - 2000
Shostakovich in Dialogue - Judith Kuhn - 2010
Shostakovich Reconsidered - Allan B. Ho and Dmitry Feofanov - 1998
Shostakovich Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies)  - David Fanning - 1995
Shostakovich Studies 2 (Cambridge Composer Studies) - Pauline Fairclough - 2010
Shostakovich Symphonies and Concertos - David Hurwitz - 2006
Shostakovich The Man and His Music - Christopher Norris - 1983
Shostakovich. A Life - L.E.Fay - 1999.pdf
The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich (Cambridge Companions to Music) - Pauline Fairclough, David Fanning - 2008
The New Shostakovich - Ian MacDonald - 1990

Stockhausen

Stockhausen - Life and work - K.H.Worner - 1977.pdf
Stockhausen: A Biography - M.Kurtz - 1994.pdf

Stravinsky

Stravinsky (1882-1971): A Composers' Memorial - Perspectives of New Music - 2009.pdf
Stravinsky and His World - Tamara Levitz - 2013
Stravinsky Inside Out - C. M. Joseph - 2001.pdf
The Cambridge companion to Stravinsky 2003 - Jonathan Cross.pdf

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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 9 Edition (6 Volume Set)

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician - C.Wolff - 2001

Although we are acquainted with the music of J. S. Bach through countless performances and recordings, the composer himself continues to come across as the somewhat enigmatic figure depicted in a single, familiar portrait. Published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author and leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era.
Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard in Bach biography.

2001 | 640 pages | EPUB | 3,2 MB 

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"The Complete Classical Music Guide" DK Publishing

Packed with photographs, composer biographies, analyses of major works, and essential information on every musical genre, style, form, instrument, and ensemble, DK's Complete Classical Music Guide is a portable encyclopedic guide to more than one thousand years of Western classical music.

From Bach to Berlioz, Glinka to Gershwin, Stravinsky to Shostakovich, and everyone in between, the Complete Classical Music Guide contains more than three hundred composer profiles, and offers a clear definition of the particular styles and characteristics of seven key eras: Early Music (1000-1600); The Baroque Era (1600-1750); The Classical Era (1750-1820); The Romantic Era (1810-1920); Romantic Opera (1810-1920); National Schools (1830-1950); and Modern Music (1900-).

The Complete Classical Music Guide also includes a timeline that charts the evolution of musical styles and forms, instruments, and provides explanations of the building blocks of music — melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, form, tempo, and dynamics.

Previously published as Eyewitness Companion: Classical Music, this book has been reformatted and designed and now comes packaged in an exclusive presentation slipcase.                                  

English | 2012 | PDF | 352 pages | 53 MB

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The Pianist - The Extraordinary True Stor - Wladyslaw Szpilman

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The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 - H.Sachs - 2011

The premier of Beethoven`s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the yearΓÇöand the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its unveiling yet it became a standard for subsequent generations of creative artists, and its composer came to embody the Romantic cult of genius. In this unconventional, provocative book, Beethoven`s masterwork becomes a prism through which we may view the politics, aesthetics, and overall climate of the era. Part biography, part history, part memoir, The Ninth brilliantly explores the intricacies of Beethoven`s last symphony how it brought forth the power of the individual while celebrating the collective spirit of humanity.

Music and Sentiment - C.Rosen - 2010

Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends - M.McAuliffe - 2011

Debussy and the Fragment (Chiasma 18) L.Cummins - 2006

Rather than solid frames, some less than perfect aesthetic objects have permeable membranes which allow them to diffuse effortlessly into the everyday world. In the parallel universes of music and literature, Linda Cummins extols the poetry of such imperfection. She places Debussy's work within a tradition thriving on anti-Aristotelian principles: motley collections, crumbling ruins real or fake, monstrous hybrids, patchwork and palimpsest, hasty sketches, ellipses, truncated beginnings and endings, meandering arabesques, irrelevant digressions, auto-quotations. Sensitive to the intermittences of memory and experience and with a keen ear for ironic intrusion, Cummins draws the reader into the Western cultural past in search of the surprisingly ubiquitous aesthetic of the unfinished, negatively silhouetted against expectations of rational coherence. Theories popularized by Schlegel and embraced by the French Symbolists are only the first waypoint on an elaborately illustrated tour reaching back to Petrarch. Cummins meticulously applies the derived results to Debussy's scores and finds convincing correlations in this chiasmatic crossover. CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1: Ruins of Convention; Conventions of Ruin Chapter 2: Beginnings and Endings Chapter 3: Arcadias and Arabesques Chapter 4: The Sketch Chapter 5: Auto-Quotation Chapter 6: Preludes: A Postlude Bibliography 

Debussy: La Mer (Cambridge Music Handbooks) - S.Trezise - 2005

Life of Mozart in Three Volumes by Otto Jahn (Translated by P.D.Townsend) - 1891

German philologist and archaeologist Otto Jahn (1813-69) first published his landmark scholarly biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) in four volumes between 1856 and 1859. This three-volume English translation by Pauline D. Townsend, first published in 1882, is based on the 1867 second edition of the German original.Otto Jahn (1813-69) was inspired to write a scholarly biography of Mozart following a conversation at Mendelssohn's funeral in 1847. He immersed himself in intensive research on the composer and his music, publishing the first edition of this landmark work in four volumes between 1856 and 1859. A second edition followed in 1867, incorporating new material and making use of Köchel's 1862 catalogue of Mozart's works. It is from this edition that Pauline D. Townsend made her three-volume English translation, first published in 1882. Volume 1 covers Mozart's life to 1778, including tours with his father and employment under Archbishop Colloredo. Volume 2 covers Mozart the man, the break with Colloredo, his move to Vienna, marriage, and Freemasonry. Volume 3 discusses the Mozart-Da Ponte operas and the Requiem, and also includes a list of his works.

Britten's Unquiet Pasts Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction - H.Wiebe - 2012.pdf

Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 (Dodo Press)

 A collection of the letters of Ludwig van Beethoven who is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music, and was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His music and his reputation inspired - and in many cases intimidated - ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. While primarily known today as a composer, Beethoven was also a celebrated pianist. Born in Bonn, Germany, he moved to Vienna, Austria, in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. Despite gradual hearing loss beginning in his twenties, Beethoven continued to produce notable masterpieces throughout his life, even when he was almost totally deaf. Beethoven was also one of the first composers to work freelance - arranging subscription concerts, selling his compositions to publishers, and gaining financial support from a number of wealthy patrons - rather than seek out permanent employment by the church or by an aristocratic court.

Music and Manners in France and Germany, Volumes 1-3: A Series of Travelling Sketches of Art and Society - H.F.Chorley - 2009

Henry Fothergill Chorley was music critic of The Athenaeum for over thirty years. This three-volume book, published in 1841, originated in a journal written by Chorley while travelling in Europe. His aim was to 'illustrate the present state of theatrical, orchestral, and chamber music abroad', focusing on aspects that would be least familiar to an English readership. There are detailed accounts of Paris and Berlin, with prominence given to opera, theatre, art galleries and monuments. Chorley also describes visits to Brunswick, Leipzig, Dresden and Nuremburg, and performances by artists including Mendelssohn and Liszt. He intersperses anecdotes about transport, lodgings, landscapes and local customs. Chorley's incisive and entertaining eyewitness accounts will fascinate music-lovers and theatre historians, as well as others interested in the performing arts or travel writing in the nineteenth-century.

Volume 1 describes his visits to Paris and Brunswick, focusing on opera.

Volume 2 describes his visits to the Harz mountains and Berlin.

Volume 3 describes visits to Leipzig, Dresden, Nuremburg and Paris.

Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano - W.A.Clark - 2011

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas in New York, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing and they perished in the waters of the English Channel. His death was mourned on both sides of the Atlantic as a stunning loss to the music world, for he had died at the pinnacle of his career and his late works held the promise of greater things to come. While Granados's tragic demise casts a pall over his life story, author Walter Clark reveals an artist of remarkable versatility and individuality and sheds new light on his enduring significance.

Enrique Granados: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) - C.A.Hess - 1991

The biographical study, the first in English, draws on primary sources in English, Spanish, French, Catalan, and other languages. This material is carefully documented in the extensive annotated bibliography along with contemporaneous and recent analytical studies and other sources. Granados's oeuvre presents cataloging problems due to his habit of reworking pieces, long-delayed publication, and arbitrary opus numbers. In the Works and Performances section, however, every effort has been made to offer publication dates, manuscript locations, and information on premieres. Representative arrangements of his works by other composers are also given. An appendix classifies the works by scoring. A selective discography is also provided, and all parts of the volume are fully cross-referenced and indexed. Granados is placed in the context of the international artistic scene at the turn of the century, and a chronology notes related events.

Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician - F.Niecks - 2004

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 & 2 - Tr. by L.Wallace - 2004

 

Beethoven, A Character Study together with Wagner's Indebtedness to Beethoven - G.A.Fischer - 2005

Johann Sebastian Bach: His life, art, and work - J.N.Forkel - 1920