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Auer discusses his own training and teaching approach, covering posture, practice, tone production, bowing, left-hand technique, double stops, trill, ornaments, pizzicato, harmonics, nuance, style, nerves and repertory. The volume also reflects the pedagogy behind pupils such as Heifetz, Elman and Zimbalist.

Auer’s autobiography traces his career as violinist, teacher and musical participant across Central and Eastern Europe and the United States. It records encounters with leading composers and performers and provides direct testimony about conservatory culture, concert life and the formation of a major violin school.

Shawn’s biography is designed to integrate Bernstein’s life with the full range of his musical activity rather than allowing the conductor, celebrity or Broadway composer to eclipse the others. Written by a composer and pianist, it gives unusual weight to the scores themselves, moving from early formation at…

This dossier covers Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician, a significant bibliographic resource associated with Barry Seldes. The volume is useful because it helps place its subject within a wider historical, analytical or documentary context and complements the rest of the Library catalogue with a…

This dossier covers Leonard Bernstein, a significant bibliographic resource associated with Paul Myers. The volume is useful because it helps place its subject within a wider historical, analytical or documentary context and complements the rest of the Library catalogue with a clearly identified title-and-author record.

Leonard Bernstein: A Biography is a substantial biographical source on Leonard Bernstein. Comprehensive biography by a long-time colleague and television producer, integrating Bernstein’s conducting, composition, Broadway work, education, recordings, politics and private life with extensive first-hand access. The dossier treats the book not merely as a life narrative…

Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View is a substantial biographical source on Leopold Stokowski. Monumental biography based on hundreds of interviews, correspondence and archival research, covering Stokowski’s origins, Philadelphia years, premieres, recording innovations, broadcasting, Hollywood, new-music advocacy and exceptionally long conducting career. The dossier treats the book not merely…

Bernstein: A Biography is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Leonard Bernstein. 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 testimony, later recollection and…

A quick-reference compendium of more than two hundred opera plots with cast lists and key musical numbers.

This biography or documentary study follows Leoš Janáček through the personal, professional and cultural circumstances in which the music was created. The dossier links chronology with works, correspondence, institutions, patrons, performers and reception so that the volume can be used both as a narrative biography and as an…

This biography or documentary study follows Leoš Janáček through the personal, professional and cultural circumstances in which the music was created. The dossier links chronology with works, correspondence, institutions, patrons, performers and reception so that the volume can be used both as a narrative biography and as an…

This expanded dossier treats My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music as a substantial source on Leon Fleisher. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid…

This curated dossier identifies Forbidden Childhood by Ruth Slenczynska and Louis Leopold Biancolli as a distinct biographical or documentary source within Classical Archive. It is included not merely as a title record but as a research-oriented entry: the book is indexed by subject, author and title variants, and…

This curated dossier identifies Claude Debussy: His Life and Works by Léon Vallas as a distinct biographical or documentary source within Classical Archive. It is included not merely as a title record but as a research-oriented entry: the book is indexed by subject, author and title variants, and…

Janáček: A Composer’s Life is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Leoš Janáček. 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 testimony, later recollection…