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The Lives of the Great Composers

By Harold C. Schonberg

Coleridge's Writings, Volume 1: On Politics and Society

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Morrow

Messiah: Gospel According to Handel's Oratorio

By Roger A. Bullard

Solti on Solti: A Memoir

By George Solti, Harvey Sachs

Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich

By Christina Bashford (Senior Lecturer in Music, Senior Lecturer in Music, Oxford Brookes University), Leanne Langley (on the research staff of the Department of Music, on the research staff of the Department of Music, Goldsmiths College, University of Lo...

Jonathan Harvey

By Arnold Whittall

Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah: The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work

By Michael Marissen

Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet

By Edward Dusinberre

Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos

By William R. Trotter

Hans Keller and Internment: The Development of an Emigre Musician

By Alison Garnham, Christopher Wintle

In Search of Wagner

By Theodor Adorno, Rodney Livingstone, Slavoj Zizek

Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall

By Joseph Horowitz

George Gershwin's Preludes for Piano

By Scriabin, Alexander

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion

By Charles Rosen

Sonata in C Major

By Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Evelyn Rothwell

The Beethoven Compendium: A Guide to Beethoven's Life and Music

By Barry Cooper

Enough: Scenes from Childhood

By Sir Stephen Hough, CBE

Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten

By Benjamin Britten, Dr Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed

The Observer's Book of Music

By Freda Dinn

Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music

By Patrick Kavanaugh

Drum Gahu: An Introduction to African Rhythm

By David Locke

GREAT VIOLINISTS

The Early Music Revival: A History

By Harry Haskell

Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium

By Nicholas Kenyon (Editor of ^IEarly Music^R, music critic of ^IThe Observer^R, and broadcaster, Editor of ^IEarly Music^R, and broadcaster)