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Franz Liszt, Volume Three: The Final Years, 1861–1886
Alan Walker
Biography / performance history · 1996 · English
Alan Walker. Franz Liszt, Volume Three: The Final Years, 1861–1886. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. ISBN 0679425573.
Franz Liszt, Volume Three: The Final Years, 1861–1886 is a substantial biographical source on Franz Liszt. Final volume of Walker’s biography, treating Liszt’s Rome–Weimar–Budapest “threefold life,” late experimental works, teaching, religious commitments, Wagner family relations and the final decades of international influence. The dossier treats the book not…
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Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750 — Volume III
Philipp Spitta
Monumental scholarly biography / works study · 1885 · English, translated from German
Philipp Spitta. Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750 — Volume III. London: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1885.
The final volume brings Spitta’s account through Bach’s mature Leipzig years and later output, while also assessing the composer’s influence and historical position. It is essential for understanding the nineteenth-century construction of Bach as both church composer and universal master.
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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Correspondence / primary source · English, translated from German
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847.
This continuation of Mendelssohn’s correspondence covers the mature professional years: conducting, composition, festivals, institutional work, travel, family life and an increasingly dense European network. The letters place major works and professional decisions within the everyday practical realities of nineteenth-century musical life.
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A General History of the Science and Practice of Music — Volume V
Sir John Hawkins
Music history / biography / contemporary criticism · 1776 · English
Sir John Hawkins. A General History of the Science and Practice of Music — Volume V. London: T. Payne and Son, 1776.
The final volume completes Hawkins’s vast survey and reaches the musical world nearest his own lifetime. It combines biographical portraits, institutional history and judgments about repertory and practice, closing one of the foundational English histories of music.
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