Classical Musician Biographies

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

By Norman Lebrecht

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

Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

By Paul Kildea

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.

Composer's World: Debussy

By Wendy Thompson

Shostakovich

By Eric Roseberry

House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons

By Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

My First Forty Years

By Placido Domingo

Big Bangs

By Goodall, Howard

Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession

By Dr Ian Bostridge, CBE (Author)

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

By Judith Chernaik

The Music of Silence

By Andrea Bocelli

Lyrics: 1962-2001

By Bob Dylan

Soldiers of Light

By Daniel Bergner

Mozart: The Golden Years 1781-1791

By H. C. Robbins Landon

101 Things to Learn in Art School

By Kit White

Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

By Paul Kildea

Scotland: The Story of a Nation

By Magnusson, Magnus

Beethoven

By Denis Matthews