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...

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

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work.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

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

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

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...

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

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...

President of The Juilliard School and then of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts during the years 1945-1968, Schuman (1910-1992) was an “art...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

Rosalyn Tureck: A Life With Bach Rosalyn Tureck was the first twentieth-century artist to make the Goldberg Variations and all-Bach recitals popula...

The titanic choreographer, creator of memorable ballets, master of Broadway musicals, legendary show doctor and director, now revealed in his own w...