COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY READINGS

General Biography

Leon Edel, Literary Biography (1957), pp. 1-13;

Paul Murray Kendall, The Art of Biography (1965), 13-28;

Carl Dahlhaus, Ludwig van Beethoven – Approaches to his Music (1991), pp. 1-10.

John Worthen, “The Necessary Ignorance of a Biographer,” in The Art of Literary Biography, ed. J. Batchelor (1995), 227-244.

Mozart

Franz Niemetschek, Life of Mozart (1798; Eng. trans. 1956).

The Letters of Mozart and his Family (trans and ed. Emily Anderson), pp. 713-784.

Maynard Solomon, Mozart – A Life (1995).

pp. 187-209

pp. 455-502

Volkmar Braunbehrens, Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791 (1990).

pp. 362-426

Georg Knepler, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1991/1994), pp. 217-246.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Mozart (1982), pp. 327-366.

Alfred Einstein: Mozart: His Character, His Work.

pp. 24-45

pp. 167-195

John Rosselli, The Life of Mozart (1998), pp. 60-78.

Julian Rushton, Mozart (2006), pp. 201-231.

William Stafford: The Mozart Myths.

Peter Gay, Mozart (1999).

Stanley Sadie, The New Grove Mozart (1980/1982), pp.78-107.

Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life (ed. and trans.by Robert Spaethling, 2000), pp. 231-297.

Schumann

John Daverio, Robert Schumann, Herald of a ‘New Poetic Age’ (1997)

pp. 3-17

pp. 155-202

pp. 242-63

pp. 294-302

pp. 449-459

pp. 482-488

Nancy Reich, Clara Schumann – The Artist and the Woman (1985), pp. 78-102.

Janice Galloway, Clara (2003), pp. 170-189.

J. D. Landis, Longing (2000), pp. 271-283.

Eric Frederick Jensen, Schumann (2001)

pp. 206-212

pp. 312-334

Peter Ostwald, Schumann, The Inner Voices of a Musical Genius (1985)

pp. 1-9

pp. 33-43

pp. 165-175

pp. 191-201

pp. 295-307

Robert Haven Schauffler, Florestan, The Life and Work of Robert Schumann

pp. 169-176

pp. 451-463

pp. 475-97

Wilhelm von Wasielwski, Life of Robert Schumann (1871), pp. 170-191.

John Worthen, Robert Schumann, Life and Death of a Musician (2007)

pp. 72-76

pp. 220-224

pp. 361-369

pp. 386-389

Ives

J. Peter Burkholder, Charles Ives – The Ideas Behind the Music (1985), pp. 95-109

Henry and Sidney Cowell, Charles Ives and His Music (1955),

pp. 15-30 (chapter 2)

pp. 98-118 (chapter 7)

Stuart Feder, Charles Ives: “My Father’s Song” (1992)

pp. 229-243

Charles Ives, Essays Before a Sonata (1922), pp. 21-31

Vivian Perlis, Charles Ives Remembered – An Oral History (1976)

pp. 3-14 (Amelia van Wyck, Philip Sunderland)

pp. 131-145 (Elliott Carter)

pp. 147-155 (Nicholas Slonimsky)

pp. 198-206 (Lou Harrison

Frank Rossiter, Charles Ives and His America (1975)

pp. 23-44

pp. 126-144

pp. 191-196

pp. 277-287

Jan Swafford, Charles Ives – A Life with Music (1996)

pp. 103-115

pp. 135-142

pp. 194-212

pp. 291-305

pp. 325-336

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pp. 431-434

David Wooldridge, From the Steeples and Mountains (1974)