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...

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

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

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

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

Webber, Andrew Lloyd

A Love Story, in Music Lessons By Jeremy Denk In Every Good Boy Does Fine, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible artistic journey. L...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work.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

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

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

"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...