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Title: Holes in my Music Library
Post by: ramseytheii on February 17, 2007, 05:13:08 PM

I have some weak spots in my music library.  Can someone suggest inexpensive but reliable biographies, or informative works about these composers?

Bach
Liszt
Schubert
Debussy
Ravel
Prokofiev
Rachmaninoff

All the best!

Walter Ramsey

Title: Re: Holes in my Music Library
Post by: pianistimo on February 18, 2007, 02:43:40 AM

there's an autobiography of rachmaninov that was well written.  i don't remember the title - but i remember reading a portion of it.  also, the autobiography of claudio arrau was interesting.  i found that one in the library.  it's been a few years now - so i'm kinda off on these things.

i think that autobiographies are quite useful.  don't know if prokofiev wrote one.  what is good is to hear from the composer's own mouth - what he was intending when writing certain compositions - or what was going on in his/her life at the time.  i'm sure debussy wrote one, too.