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Horowitz: His Life and Music is a substantial biographical source on Vladimir Horowitz. Biography by the long-time New York Times critic, especially useful for repertory, pianistic style, recordings, critical reception and first-hand knowledge of the international piano world. The dossier treats the book not merely as a life…

The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Pianists. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is especially useful for distinguishing primary…

This dossier identifies The Keyboard Music of J. S. Bach by David Schulenberg as a distinct research source for Baroque music. It places the work within scholarship on the composer, repertory and institutions concerned while indexing title and author variants so that the record remains discoverable even when…

This dossier identifies The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach by David Schulenberg as a distinct research source for Baroque music. It places the work within scholarship on the composer, repertory and institutions concerned while indexing title and author variants so that the record remains discoverable even when…

A curated dossier for Verdi with a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera by William Berger. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record…

Newlin’s book is an influential mid-century attempt to understand Bruckner, Mahler and Schoenberg as successive stages in a specifically Viennese and Austro-German historical development. Originating in the author’s Columbia doctoral work and later revised, it connects stylistic analysis with intellectual, literary and political context. Bruckner’s enlarged symphonic inheritance,…

Conductor Willem Mengelberg, 1871–1951: Acclaimed and Accused is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Willem Mengelberg. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is especially useful for distinguishing primary…

Garcia presents a concise question-and-answer account of vocal production, registers, breathing, attack, timbre, articulation, ornament, portamento, trill, phrasing and style. The English edition was associated with Beata Garcia and transmits principles from one of the most influential nineteenth-century singing teachers.