MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

The Piano Sonatas; History, Notation, Interpretation

by Jan Marisse Huizing

Translated by Gerald R. Mettam

Poulenc

A Biography

by Roger Nichols

Unaccompanied Bach

Performing the Solo Works

by David Ledbetter

Irving Berlin

New York Genius

Jewish Lives

by James Kaplan

Mozart’s Operas: A Companion

by Mary Hunter

The Tchaikovsky Papers

Unlocking the Family Archive

Edited by Marina Kostalevsky

Translated by Stephen Pearl

Compiled by Polina E. Vaidman

Barbra Streisand

Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

Jewish Lives

by Neal Gabler

Leonard Bernstein

An American Musician

Jewish Lives

by Allen Shawn

Bach's Major Vocal Works

Music, Drama, Liturgy

by Markus Rathey

Kander and Ebb

Yale Broadway Masters Series

by James Leve

The Leonard Bernstein Letters

Edited by Nigel Simeone

by Leonard Bernstein

Tainted Glory in Handel’s Messiah

The Unsettling History of the World’s Most Beloved Choral Work

by Michael Marissen

Gustav Mahler

by Jens Malte Fischer