Henry Carter Hull

Traces the life of seventeenth-century composer Johann Sebastian Bach from his birth in 1685 to his death in 1750, discussing his school years, early employment, his twenty-seven-year sojourn in Leipzig, his home and family, and his music.

Biography of ninteenth-century German composer Johannes Brahms, discussing his poverty-stricken childhood, his early talent, and his acclaimed work, and providing details about his reportedly blustery, witty personality.

A biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, discussing his early genius, and tracing his development as a composer.

Profiles the lives and works of 875 women composers of Western classical music.

Chronicles the life and achievements of the American songwriter and contains a chronology of 1,500 songs.

Caterina Pellegrini, a musicologist with a doctorate in Baroque opera, takes a job in her hometown of Venice, Italy, in order to examine two trunks believed to contain the papers of a once-famous italian Baroque composer, a man well connected with the church but was caught up in a scandal in 1694.

"An ideal 'first book' on Beethoven" from one of the world's most eminent classical music aficionados ( Booklist ). Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer's difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew's...

In print with the original text for the first time in decades, Marching Along is the intriguing autobiography John Philip Sousa wrote in the final years of his life.Sousa (1854-1932) was America's first superstar, a giant of his day. He conducted more than 14,000 concerts, composed a hundred hit tunes, and wrote three Broadway musicals that ran at the same time. In 1900, he was the best-known musician in the world and friends with presidents, corporate...