Music Books

Mozart - The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

Henry Edward Krehbiel

The German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was not only a musical genius, but was also one of the pre-eminent geniuses of the Western world. He defined in his music a system of musical th..

A Popular History of the Art of Music

W. S. B. Mathews

Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and m..

Lessons in Music Form

Percy Goetschius

Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition written by Percy Goetschius, who won international fame in the teaching of the..

Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2

Franz Liszt

The Austrio-Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a pianistic miracle. He could play anything on site and composed over 400 works centered around "his" instrument. Among his key works are his..

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenera..

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John Avery Lomax

The "Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp" does not purport to be an anthology of Western verse. As its title indicates, the contents of the book are limited to attempts, more or less poetic, in tra..

Mozart - The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

Friedrich Kerst

The German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was not only a musical genius, but was also one of the pre-eminent geniuses of the Western world. He defined in his music a system of musical th..

Life of Chopin

Franz Liszt

Life of Chopin is the biography of Polish composer Frédéric François Chopin, who was primarily composing solo piano. This biography has been written by Franz Liszt, who was a Hungarian compo..