Biography

Mozart’s remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. This volume brings together...

Remembering Marvin Hamlisch The People's Composer "A Cultural Icon" Photographs By Len Prince Vintage Images Courtesy of the Hamlisch Family Archiv...

Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, with the assistance of Sophia SatinaWith a new introduction by David Butler CannataAn indispensable and captivatin...

Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composersThis ca...

My Nine Lives is a powerful and stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era—an inspiring tale of courage, compassion, and tr...

A selection of Mozart’s letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.

"Nothing could be more spontaneous and ebullient than Chopin's letters." — Books"Perhaps no composer's letters are so kindred to his music, and rem...

Although Gustav Mahler has become one of most popular of composers, he remains widely misunderstood both as man and musician. In Mahler, Jonathan C...

The long-awaited memoir of Julius Rudel, the legendary opera conductor and arts administrator, gives insight into his ground-breaking repertory cho...

This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a we...

No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made ...

This book is the first comprehensive collection of the letters of Johannes Brahms ever to appear in English. Over 550 are included, virtually all u...

The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today’s music sceneThe star of the Metropolitan Opera’s recent revival of D...

An extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century musicLeonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versati...

The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein Jonathan Cott Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic ...

The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissanc...

The captivating story of Frédéric Chopin and the fate of both his Mallorquin piano and musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twe...