Biography

Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Al...

Frederick Douglass’s dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secr...

One of the most revered composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy (1862–1918) achieved the unheard of: he reinvented the language of music...

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

A fresh look at the life of Mozart during his imperial years by one of the world's leading Mozart scholars. "I now stand at the gateway to my fortu...

Claude Debussy’s exquisite piano works have captivated generations with their dreamlike atmosphere and mysterious soundscapes.Written in Paris at t...

The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a dee...

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work. ...

A revised edition of the clear biography of choice for anyone interested in one of the great figures of music.--The New York Times Book Review Geor...

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

This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches t...

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...

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who ...

"[Glenn Gould] marks a major advance in our understanding of one of the 20th century's most significant performing artists.... Ostwald is as engros...

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...

Lewis Lockwood Beethoven's Lives will be required reading for anyone interested in understanding how Beethoven biography has evolved through the ag...