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Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music

By Gareth Malone

Britten

By Christopher Headington

Leonard Bernstein

By Humphrey Burton, CBE

Mozart: The Man Revealed

By John Suchet

Lyrics: 1962-2001

By Bob Dylan

The Music of Silence

By Andrea Bocelli

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

By Judith Chernaik

Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession

By Dr Ian Bostridge, CBE (Author)

Big Bangs

By Goodall, Howard

My First Forty Years

By Placido Domingo

House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons

By Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

Shostakovich

By Eric Roseberry

Composer's World: Debussy

By Wendy Thompson

Wagner's "Ring" and Its Symbols: The Music and the Myth

By Professor Robert Donington, O.B.E.

The Boleyn Inheritance

By Philippa Gregory (University of Edinburgh)

Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

By Paul Kildea

The Letters of Mozart and his Family

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Emily Anderson, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart

A Life Remembered: Memoirs

By Karl Bohm, John Kehoe

Those Twentieth Century Blues: An Autobiography

By Michael Tippett

Sorabji: A Critical Celebration

By Paul Rapoport

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

Michael Tippett: The Biography

By Oliver Soden

Beethoven: The Man Revealed

By John Suchet

Bruckner (Illustrated Musical Biography S.)

By Hans-Hubert Schonzeler

Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World

By Norman Lebrecht

Shostakovich: A Life

By Laurel Fay (Former Assistant Professor of Music, Former Assistant Professor of Music, Ohio State University)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

By Jessica Duchen

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

By Norman Lebrecht

Selected Letters

By Richard Wagner, Mr. Stewart Spencer, B. Willington

Beethoven: The Man Revealed

By John Suchet