BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians

Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical

by Laurie Winer

Folk Music

A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

by Greil Marcus

Beethoven

A Life in Nine Pieces

by Laura Tunbridge

Playing with Fire

The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia

by Elizabeth Wilson

Poulenc

A Biography

by Roger Nichols

The Tchaikovsky Papers

Unlocking the Family Archive

Edited by Marina Kostalevsky

Translated by Stephen Pearl

Compiled by Polina E. Vaidman

Franz Liszt

Musician, Celebrity, Superstar

by Oliver Hilmes

Translated by Stewart Spencer

Leonard Bernstein

An American Musician

Jewish Lives

by Allen Shawn

Jerome Kern

Yale Broadway Masters Series

by Stephen Banfield

The Leonard Bernstein Letters

Edited by Nigel Simeone

by Leonard Bernstein

Artists Under Hitler

Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

by Jonathan Petropoulos

Gustav Mahler

by Jens Malte Fischer

George Gershwin

Yale Broadway Masters Series

by Larry Starr

Ravel

by Roger Nichols

Bob Dylan

Like a Complete Unknown

Icons of America

by David Yaffe

Music for Silenced Voices

Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

by Wendy Lesser