Classical Musician Biographies

Thomas the Rhymer

By Ellen Kushner

The Real Mahler

By Carr Johnathan

Musical Lives

By Sir Nicholas Kenyon, CBE

Portrait of Elgar

By Michael Kennedy (Chief Music Critic, Sunday Telegraph, Chief Music Critic, Sunday Telegraph)

Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

By John Eliot Gardiner

Erik Satie

By Rollo H. Myers

Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

By Billy Connolly

Beethoven's Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond

By Tim Rayborn

The Lives of the Great Composers

By Harold C. Schonberg

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

Solti on Solti: A Memoir

By George Solti, Harvey Sachs

Jonathan Harvey

By Arnold Whittall

Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos

By William R. Trotter

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

By Barry Cooper

Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

By Stuart Isacoff

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

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

By Patrick Kavanaugh

GREAT VIOLINISTS

Wagner: As Man and Artist

By Ernest Newman

Essentials of Pain Medicine and Regional Anaesthesia

By Honorio T. Benzon, etc., et al