Classical Musician Biographies

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

By H. C. Robbins Landon

Rachmaninov

By Robert Matthew-Walker

Liszt

By Derek Watson

Gilbert and Sullivan

By Hesketh Pearson

The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

By Dan Moller

The Letters of Mozart

By Mersmann

Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

By Paul Kildea

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

By Jessica Duchen

Shostakovich: A Life

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

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

By Norman Lebrecht

Bruckner (Illustrated Musical Biography S.)

By Hans-Hubert Schonzeler

Beethoven: The Man Revealed

By John Suchet

Michael Tippett: The Biography

By Oliver Soden

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

Sorabji: A Critical Celebration

By Paul Rapoport

Those Twentieth Century Blues: An Autobiography

By Michael Tippett

A Life Remembered: Memoirs

By Karl Bohm, John Kehoe

The Letters of Mozart and his Family

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

My First Forty Years

By Placido Domingo

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

Composer's World: Debussy

By Wendy Thompson

The Boleyn Inheritance

By Philippa Gregory (University of Edinburgh)

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

By Professor Robert Donington, O.B.E.

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

By Norman Lebrecht

Shostakovich

By Eric Roseberry

House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons

By Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason