Subject: Composers Biography

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The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence by Jane Stuart Smith (688 copies)
The Lives of the Great Composers by Harold C. Schonberg (666 copies)
Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers by Patrick Kavanaugh (627 copies)
George Handel (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… by Mike Venezia (312 copies)
Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins (260 copies)
The Milton Cross New Encyclopedia of the Great Composers… by Milton Cross (257 copies)
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked by M. T. Anderson (257 copies)
Stories of the Great Operas and Their Composers by Ernest Newman (247 copies)
George Frideric Handel : Composer of Messiah by Charles Ludwig (235 copies)
Frederic Chopin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… by Mike Venezia (183 copies)
Igor Stravinsky (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… by Mike Venezia (176 copies)
Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, Volume… by Milton Cross (129 copies)
Strange Mr. Satie by M. T. Anderson (125 copies)
An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky (124 copies)
Handel by Donald Burrows (108 copies)
Chopin In Paris: The Life And Times Of The Romantic… by Tad Szulc (108 copies)
Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, Volume… by Milton Cross (107 copies)
The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance: The Evolution… by Mark Prendergast (101 copies)
Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship by Robert Craft (100 copies)
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 by Stephen Walsh (95 copies)
Living Biographies of Great Composers by Henry Thomas (90 copies)
Domenico Scarlatti by Ralph Kirkpatrick (84 copies)
Men of Music by Wallace Brockway (81 copies)
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 by Stephen Walsh (73 copies)
My Favorite Comedies in Music by Victor Borge (70 copies)
Dictionary of Composers by Charles Osborne (70 copies)
George Frideric Handel by Paul Henry Lang (69 copies)
The days grow short: The life and music of Kurt Weill by Ronald Sanders (65 copies)
20th Century Composers : Minimalists by K. Robert Schwartz (63 copies)
Stravinsky: in Pictures and Documents by Vera Stravinsky (59 copies)
The Chronicle of Classical Music: An Intimate Diary of the… by Alan Kendall (57 copies)
Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theatre by John Lahr (56 copies)
Chopin: A Biography by Adam Zamoyski (47 copies)
Rossini by Richard Osborne (43 copies)
Handel and His World by H. C. Robbins Landon (42 copies)
History's 100 Greatest Composers by Helen Loeb Kaufmann (41 copies)
Dufay by David Fallows (41 copies)
Gustav Mahler, vol 1 by Henry-Louis de La Grange (40 copies)
Percy Grainger by John Bird (39 copies)
Lives of the Great Composers, Volume 1 by A. L. Bacharach (38 copies)
The world of twentieth-century music by David Ewen (36 copies)
The New Grove Modern Masters (Composer Biography Series) by Vera Lampert (35 copies)
Lives of the Great Composers, Volume 2 by A. L. Bacharach (33 copies)
Lives of the Great Composers, Volume 3 by A. L. Bacharach (30 copies)
Bartok Remembered by Malcolm Gillies (29 copies)
Rakhmaninov by Geoffrey Norris (29 copies)
Stravinsky Inside Out by Charles M. Joseph (27 copies)
The New Grove high Renaissance masters : Josquin,… by Gustave Reese (26 copies)
Chopin (Master Musicians Series) by Jim Samson (26 copies)
Rachmaninoff by Robert Matthew-Walker (25 copies)
Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life by Robert Craft (23 copies)
The Composer-Pianists: Hamelin and The Eight by Robert Rimm (20 copies)
The New Grove North European Baroque Masters: Schütz,… by Joshua Rifkin (19 copies)
Lives of the Great Composers, Volumes 1-3 by A. L. Bacharach (19 copies)
Composers Since 1900; A Biographical and Critical Guide. by David Ewen (19 copies)
Handel by Herbert Weinstock (16 copies)
The world of great composers by David Ewen (15 copies)
Studies of Great Composers by C. Hubert H. Parry (15 copies)
Frédéric Chopin by Bernard Gavoty (15 copies)
The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 1: Chopin, Schumann,… by Nicholas Temperley (15 copies)
Chopin: The Reluctant Romantic by Jeremy Siepmann (14 copies)
Song by song : the lives and work of 14 great lyric writers by Caryl Brahms (13 copies)
You Must Remember This...: Popular Songwriters 1900-1980 by Mark White (13 copies)
The new book of modern composers by David Ewen (12 copies)
The Omnibus Essential Guide to Classical CDs by Garaud. MacTaggart (12 copies)
The New Grove early romantic masters 2 : Weber, Berlioz,… by John Warrack (11 copies)
Gioacchino Rossini: The Reluctant Hero by Alan Kendall (10 copies)
Menotti: A Biography by John Gruen (10 copies)
Echoes of the Sixties by Jeff March (10 copies)
Igor and Vera Stravinsky: A Photograph Album, 1921 to 1971 by Vera Stravinsky (9 copies)
Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht… by Rob C. Wegman (9 copies)
Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles : the life of the composer and his… by Emil Smidak (8 copies)
Handel, a celebration of his life and times, 1685-1759 by Jacob Simon (8 copies)
Remembering Franz Liszt: Life and Liszt, My Memories of… by Arthur Friedheim (7 copies)
Songwriters : a biographical dictionary with discographies by Nigel Harrison (6 copies)
Joseph Boulogne called Chevalier de Saint-Georges by Emil F Smidak (6 copies)
On lutes, recorders and harpsichords: men and music of the… by Freda Pastor Berkowitz (5 copies)
Franck by Jean Gallois (5 copies)
Handbook to the Church Hymnary by James Moffatt (5 copies)
Concerning Handel : his life and works : essays by William Charles Smith (5 copies)
Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical… by Larry Sitsky (4 copies)
Peggy Glanville-Hicks by Wendy Beckett (4 copies)
Rachmaninov by Николай Данилович Бажанов (4 copies)
Music Lovers' Cookbook by Frances E. Gibson (3 copies)
The Musical Migration and Ernst Toch by Diane Peacock Jezic (3 copies)
A Rebecca Clarke reader by Liane Curtis (2 copies)
Piccola guida alle grande musica (Italian Edition) by Rodolfo Venditti (2 copies)
Henryk Wieniawski by Edmund Grabkowski (1 copies)
Composers on record : an index to biographical information… by Frank Greene (1 copies)
Making friends with 100 composers; biographies, assessment,… by James Glennon (1 copies)
L'Orgue Cahiers et mémoires (1 copies)
Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel and John Christopher… by William Coxe (1 copies)