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  • The Puccini Companion

    William Weaver, Simonetta Puccini

    Paperback

    This informative volume offers 27 photographs and drawings, select bibliographies, a chronology of Puccini’s life and works, a dramatis personae of the countless individuals who played a role in Puccini’s career, a list of first performances, and plot summaries of all the operas.

  • The New Bach Reader

    Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel, Christoph Wolff

    Revised and Expanded

    Paperback

    "Just reading these documents brings this great composer to life in a most exciting and vivid way. I love this book!" —Yo-Yo Ma

  • An Autobiography

    Igor Stravinsky

    Paperback

    While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book—the composer's first—we hear from the man himself.

  • Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius

    Peter Ostwald

    Paperback

    "[Glenn Gould] marks a major advance in our understanding of one of the 20th century's most significant performing artists.... Ostwald is as engrossing a writer as any who has tried his hand at biography."—Ted Libbey, Washington Post Book World

  • Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music

    Leonie Rosenstiel

    Paperback

    A detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music.