Book Awards for J_J_Lubrano_Music

1000 Books to Read Before You Die

• The memoirs of Hector Berlioz, member of the French Institute, including his travels in Italy, Germany, Russia and England, 1803-1865 by Hector Berlioz
• Memoirs by Lorenzo Da Ponte
• Stravinsky : chronicle of a friendship by Robert Craft

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Where she danced by Elizabeth Kendall (Non-fiction – 1999)

ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing

• Aaron Copland : the life and work of an uncommon man by Howard Pollack (2000)
• Amy Beach, passionate Victorian : the life and work of an American composer, 1867-1944 by Adrienne Fried Block (1999)
• Anna Bolena and the artistic maturity of Gaetano Donizetti by Philip Gossett (1986)
• Anton von Webern, a chronicle of his life and work by Hans Moldenhauer (1980)
• Arnold Schoenberg's journey by Allen Shawn (2003)
• Bach : essays on his life and music by Christoph Wolff (1992)
• Beethoven by Maynard Solomon (1978)
• The Berg-Schoenberg correspondence : selected letters by Alban Berg (1988)
• Berlioz by David Cairns (2001)
• The big bands by George Thomas Simon (1968)
• Bruno Walter : a world elsewhere by Erik S. Ryding (2002)
• Béla Bartók : composition, concepts, and autograph sources by László Somfai (1997)
• Charles Ives and his America by Frank R. Rossiter (1976)
• Clara Schumann, the artist and the woman by Nancy B. Reich (1986)
• The classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen (1972)
• Composers at work : the craft of musical composition 1450 - 1600 by Jessie Ann Owens (1998)
• Composers at work : the craft of musical composition 1450-1600 by Jessie Ann Owens (1998)
• Copland. 1900 through 1942 by Aaron Copland (1985)
• Copland. Since 1943 by Aaron Copland (1985)
• A descriptive catalogue of the music of Charles Ives by James B. Sinclair (Special Recognition – 2000)
• Divas and scholars : performing Italian opera by Philip Gossett (2007)
• Early jazz : its roots and musical development by Gunther Schuller (1969)
• The early works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 by Walter Frisch (1994)
• Fanny Hensel : the other Mendelssohn by R. Larry Todd (Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography – 2011)
• Gershwin by Edward Jablonski (1988)
• Mahler, Volume 1 by Henry-Louis de La Grange (1974)
• György Ligeti : music of the imagination by Richard Steinitz (2004)
• Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780 by Daniel Heartz (1996)
• A history of the oratorio by Howard E. Smither (1978)
• Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton (1995)
• Leonardo da Vinci as a musician by Emanuel Winternitz (1983)
• Letters to Beethoven and other correspondence by Theodore Albrecht (1997)
• Letters to Beethoven and other correspondence by Theodore Albrecht (1997)
• Letters to Beethoven and other correspondence by Theodore Albrecht (1997)
• The Masses and motets of William Byrd by Joseph Kerman (1982)
• Mozart's operas by Daniel Heartz (1991)
• Mozart : a life by Maynard Solomon (1996)
• Music and musical life in Soviet Russia, 1917-1970 by Boris Schwarz (1973)
• Music for patriots, politicians, and presidents : harmonies and discords of the first hundred years by Vera Brodsky Lawrence (1976)
• The music of Black Americans : a history by Eileen Southern (1972)
• The music of Elliott Carter by David Schiff (1984)
• The music of Henry Cowell : a descriptive catalog by William Lichtenwanger (1988)
• The music of Johann Sebastian Bach : the sources, the style, the significance by Robert Lewis Marshall (1990)
• Music reference and research materials : an annotated bibliography by Vincent H. Duckles (1989)
• The New Grove dictionary of American music by H. Wiley Hitchcock (1987)
• Opera in seventeenth-century Venice : the creation of a genre by Ellen Rosand (1992)
• Operetta : a theatrical history by Richard Traubner (1984)
• Paris : the musical kaleidoscope, 1870-1925 by Elaine Brody (1988)
• The romantic generation by Charles Rosen (1996)
• Samuel Barber : the composer and his music by Barbara B. Heyman (1993)
• Arnold Schoenberg by Charles Rosen (1976)
• Schumann : the inner voices of a musical genius by Peter F. Ostwald (1986)
• Scott Joplin by James Haskins (1979)
• Stravinsky and the Russian traditions : a biography of the works through Mavra by Richard Taruskin (1997)
• Such freedom, if only musical : unofficial Soviet music during the Thaw by Peter John Schmelz (2010)
• Testimony : the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1980)
• Verdi : a biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (1994)
• A view of Berg's Lulu through the autograph sources by Patricia Hall (1997)
• Virgil Thomson : composer on the aisle by Anthony Tommasini (1998)
• Women making music : the Western art tradition, 1150-1950 by Jane M. Bowers (1987)

Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award, Arts Category

• The romantic generation by Charles Rosen (1995)

Barondess/Lincoln Award

• Lincoln and the music of the Civil War by Kenneth A. Bernard (1967)

Best Fiction for Young Adults

• Clara Schumann, the artist and the woman by Nancy B. Reich (Selection – 2000)

Booklist Editors’ Choice: Reference Sources

• International encyclopedia of dance : a project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. by Selma Jeanne Cohen (1998)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Stanley Sadie (2001)
• The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians by Sir George Grove (2001)
• The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians by George Grove (2001)
• The oxford companion to the book (2010)
• J.S. Bach by Malcolm Boyd (1999)

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

• The cultural life of the early polyphonic Mass : medieval context to modern revival by Andrew Kirkman (Music – 2011)

Christian Science Monitor Best Book

• Bach : music in the castle of heaven by John Eliot Gardiner (Nonfiction – 2013)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Hallelujah junction : composing an American life by John Adams (Gold Medal – Nonfiction – 2008)

Dartmouth Medal

• The encyclopedia of the musical theatre by Kurt Gänzl (Honorable Mention – 1995)
• International encyclopedia of dance : a project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. by Selma Jeanne Cohen (Honorable Mention – 1999)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Stanley Sadie (Winner – 1982)
• The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians by Sir George Grove (Winner – 1982)
• The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians by George Grove (Winner – 1982)

David Bowie's Top 100

• Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art by James Hall (1974)
• Silence by John Cage (1961)

The Economist Best Books

• Bach : music in the castle of heaven by John Eliot Gardiner (2013.9)

Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award

• Vauxhall Gardens : a history by David Coke (Winner – 2015)

Enlightener.Translation Award

• Bach : music in the castle of heaven by John Eliot Gardiner (Longlist – 2021)

GEO Magazine Recommendation

• The cabaret by Lisa Appignanesi

George Freedley Memorial Award

• Diaghilev : a life by Sjeng Scheijen (Finalist – 2011)
• From the score to the stage : an illustrated history of continental opera production and staging by Evan Baker (Finalist – 2014)
• Jacques Callot : artist of the theatre by Gerald Kahan (Winner – 1977)
• Jerome Kern by Stephen Banfield (Finalist – 2007)
• Kurt Weill : a life in pictures and documents by David Farneth (Finalist – 2001)
• Stage design : four centuries of scenic invention by Donald Oenslager (Winner – 1976)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• The art of the print: masterpieces, history, techniques by Fritz Eichenberg (Honorable Mention – 1977)
• The photograph collector's guide by Lee D. Witkin (Winner – 1983)
• The Salon album of Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky by John E. Bowlt (Winner – 1996)

Gordon J. Laing Award

• Divas and scholars : performing Italian opera by Philip Gossett (2008)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times by Alan Walker (Finalist – Non-fiction (English) – 2019)

Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction

• The romantic generation by Charles Rosen (Music)

Guardian Essential Library

• Beethoven's letters by Ludwig van Beethoven (Art and Music)
• The classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen (Art and Music)

Independent Publisher Book Awards

• The last prodigy : a biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold by Brendan G. Carroll (Finalist – Biography – 1998)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Franz Liszt by Alan Walker (Winner – Biography – 1983)
• The great Dr. Burney, his life, his travels, his works, his family and his friends by Percy Alfred Scholes (Winner – Biography – 1948)

John Nicholas Brown Prize

• The service-books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis : images of ritual and music in the Middle Ages by Anne Walters Robertson (1995)

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

• Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times by Alan Walker (Arts & Entertainment – 2018)

Louis Gottschalk Prize

• Handel as Orpheus : voice and desire in the chamber cantatas by Ellen T. Harris (2003)

McGuffey Longevity Award

• Gardner's art through the ages by Helen Gardner (2001)

National Book Award

• The classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen (Winner – Arts and Letters – 1972)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Bach : music in the castle of heaven by John Eliot Gardiner (Finalist – Biography – 2013)
• Glenn Gould : a life and variations by Otto Friedrich (Finalist – Biography/Autobiography – 1989)
• Understanding Toscanini : how he became an American culture-god and helped create a new audience for old music by Joseph Horowitz (Finalist – Criticism – 1987)

The New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Haydn : chronicle and works by H. C. Robbins Landon (1981)

New York Times bestseller

• Bernstein : a biography by Joan Peyser (Nonfiction – 1987)
• The Holy Bible Revised Standard Version Containing the Old and New Testaments (General – 1952)
• Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Schmidt-Görg (General – 1970)

The New York Times Notable Books of the Year

• America's music, from the pilgrims to the present by Gilbert Chase (American Scene – 1955)
• Hallelujah junction : composing an American life by John Adams (Nonfiction – 2008)
• The Hudson River and its painters by John K. Howat (Art – 1972)
• The romantic generation by Charles Rosen (1995)
• A short history of opera by Donald Jay Grout (Arts, Drama, Music – 1947)

Nicolas Bessaraboff Prize

• Musical ensembles in festival books, 1500-1800 : an iconographical & documentary survey by Edmund A. Bowles (1991)

NJCH Book Award

• The autumn of Italian opera from verismo to modernism, 1890-1915 by Alan Mallach (Honor Book – 2008)

Northern California Book Awards

• Hallelujah junction : composing an American life by John Adams (Winner – Creative nonfiction – 2009)

Notable Books List

• America's music, from the pilgrims to the present by Gilbert Chase (1955)
• Bronislava Nijinska--early memoirs by Bronislava Nijinska (1981)
• Mahler, Volume 1 by Henry-Louis de La Grange (1973)
• A history of western music by Donald Jay Grout (1960)
• The Holy Bible Revised Standard Version Containing the Old and New Testaments (1952)
• The Horizon book of the Renaissance by Richard M. Ketchum (1961)
• Reflections of nature : flowers in American art by Ella M. Foshay (1984)
• Where she danced by Elizabeth Kendall (1979)

NPR's Best Gift Books

• Hallelujah junction : composing an American life by John Adams (2008)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• Hallelujah junction : composing an American life by John Adams (2008)

Ohioana Book Award

• Men, women and pianos; a social history by Arthur Loesser (Winner – Nonfiction – 1955)

Otto Kinkeldey Award

• Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera by John A. Rice (Winner – 1999)
• Beethoven essays by Maynard Solomon (Winner – 1989)
• The Beethoven sketchbooks : history, reconstruction, inventory by Douglas Porter Johnson (Winner – 1986)
• Charles Ives remembered : an oral history by Vivian Perlis (Winner – 1975)
• The compositional process of J. S. Bach; a study of the autograph scores of the vocal works by Robert Lewis Marshall (Winner – 1974)
• Divas and scholars : performing Italian opera by Philip Gossett (Winner – 2007)
• Handel as Orpheus : voice and desire in the chamber cantatas by Ellen T. Harris (Winner – 2002)
• Johann Sebastian Bach : the learned musician by Christoph Wolff (Winner – 2001)
• The Masses and motets of William Byrd by Joseph Kerman (Winner – 1982)
• Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400-1505 : the creation of a musical center in the fifteenth century by Lewis Lockwood (Winner – 1985)
• Music in the 20th century, from Debussy through Stravinsky by William W. Austin (Winner – 1967)
• The music of the English parish church [vol. 1] by Nicholas Temperley (Winner – 1980)
• Music printing in Renaissance Venice : the Scotto Press, 1539-1572 by Jane A. Bernstein (Winner – 1999)
• Pierre Attaingnant: royal printer of music; a historical study and bibliographical catalogue by Daniel Heartz (Winner – 1971)
• The romantic generation by Charles Rosen (Winner – 1996)
• Shostakovich : a life by Laurel E. Fay (Winner – 2001)
• Stravinsky and the Russian traditions : a biography of the works through Mavra by Richard Taruskin (Winner – 1997)

Prix Broquette-Gonin

• Henry Desmarest, 1661-1741; biographie critique by Michel Antoine (Littérature – 1966)

Prix Charles Blanc

• François Couperin by Philippe Beaussant (1981)

Prix du Livre France Musique - Claude Samuel

• Claude Debussy Correspondance 1872-1918 by François and Denis Herlin Lesure (Prix du jury – 2006)
• Franz Liszt: Voume three, The Final Years 1861-1886 by Alan Walker (Biographie – 1999)
• The romantic generation by Charles Rosen (Prix du jury – 2003)

PROSE Award

• A descriptive catalogue of the music of Charles Ives by James B. Sinclair (Winner – Arts – 1999)
• Duke Ellington's America by Harvey G. Cohen (Honorable Mention – Music & the Performing Arts – 2010)
• From the score to the stage : an illustrated history of continental opera production and staging by Evan Baker (Winner – Music & the Performing Arts – 2013)
• International encyclopedia of dance : a project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. by Selma Jeanne Cohen (R. R. Hawkins Award – 1998)
• Mendelssohn : a life in music by R. Larry Todd (Winner – Biography & Autobiography – 2003)
• The romantic generation by Charles Rosen (Winner – Arts – 1995)
• The Salon album of Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky by John E. Bowlt (Winner – Excellence in Design & Production – 1995)

Pulitzer Prize

• The American orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell (Winner – Biography or Autobiography – 1928)
• Johann Sebastian Bach : the learned musician by Christoph Wolff (Finalist – Biography or Autobiography – 2001)
• Mozart : a life by Maynard Solomon (Finalist – Biography or Autobiography – 1996)

Recommendations of Around the World Magazine

• The cabaret by Lisa Appignanesi

Royal Philharmonic Society Awards

• Bayreuth : a history of the Wagner festival by Frederic Spotts (Winner – Book – 1994)
• Benjamin Britten : a biography by Humphrey Carpenter (Winner – Book – 1992)
• Berlioz by David Cairns (Winner – Book – 1989)
• Franz Liszt: Voume three, The Final Years 1861-1886 by Alan Walker (Winner – Book – 1998)
• The life of Bellini by John Rosselli (Winner – Book – 1997)
• Stravinsky and the Russian traditions : a biography of the works through Mavra by Richard Taruskin (Winner – Book – 1996)
• Stravinsky : a creative spring : Russia and France, 1882-1934 by Stephen Walsh (Winner – Book – 2000)
• Verdi : a biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (Winner – Book – 1993)

Spear's Book Award

• Vauxhall Gardens : a history by David Coke (Shortlist – Illustrated Book – 2012)

Wallace K. Ferguson Prize

• The twisted muse : musicians and their music in the Third Reich by Michael H. Kater (Winner – 1998)