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Collected from Beethoven's diaries and correspondence, these utterances and opinions reflect the composer's views on music, art, God, education, his own works, contemporaries, and many other subjects.

The composer himself offers intriguing glimpses of his life and personality in excerpts from letters to family and friends. Extensive annotations provide background for thoughts on music, religion, love, other matters.

Letters, diaries, memoirs, etc., by such musical giants as Rossini, Weber, Liszt, as well as by other friends and acquaintances of the great composer, depict Beethoven's accomplishments and his strange personality. Includes 16 portraits of Beethoven.

The standard Ravel biography by the world's foremost authority -- brilliantly detailed and documented, filled with quotations from letters, interviews with the composer's friends, and analyses of each of his works. Includes 48 illustrations.

Definitive biography, newly revised and updated, chronicles Russian composer's life and career: astounding musical innovation, concert tours, abandonment of his wife, brushes with homosexuality, madness, more. 49 rare photographs.

Classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of all 23 of Mozart's piano concertos, offering 417 musical examples and authoritative information on the works' form, tone, style, and balance.

Recollections of Mahler written in 1936 by the composer's assistant conductor in Hamburg and at the Vienna Opera, plus Ernst Krenek's biographical sketch of Mahler and a new Introduction.

Features 457 letters to fellow musicians, friends, greats, patrons, and literary men. Reveals musical thoughts, quirks of personality, insights, and daily events. Includes 15 plates.

Intimate biography by Beethoven's pupil and secretary recalls composer's personality, contemporaries, deafness, irascible behavior, etc. Extensively annotated by Beethoven scholar Donald MacArdle. Revised 3rd edition. Editor's Notes. Introduction. Includes 7 illustrations.