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Presents the correspondence of various composers from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and many others write about their music, their hopes and fears, their love, their sadness, and their struggles in realising artistic hopes in a commercial world.

Volume 1 contains correspondence with Carl Czerny, De Mancy, Alphonse Brot, Pierre, Wolff, Ferdinand Hiller, Abbe de Lamennais, Liszt's mother, Lydie Pavy, Breitkopf and Hartel, Robert Schumann, Simon Lowy, Pacini, Princess Christine Belgiojoso, the Beethoven Committee at Bonn, the "Gesellschaft der musikfreunde", Count Leo Festetics, Clara Wieck, Franz von Schober, Maurice Schlesinger, Buloz, the faculty of philosophy at the University of Konigsbert,...

Shortly after Chopin's death in 1849, Franz Liszt wrote the first full-length biography of his fellow composer. As one of Chopin's friends, Liszt created a unique biography that allows the reader to experience the world of Chopin through the memories of one of his most adamant supporters. This translation is the starting volume of Janita Hall-Swadley's The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, the very first production of Liszt's entire literary collection...

This book of Schoenberg's selected unpublished correspondence written between 1903 and 1950 includes the responses of the addressees, giving a vivid picture of the historical controversies between the composer and other major figures in the field. Each of the correspondences, with pioneering musicologist Guido Adler, eminent critic Olin Downes, and cello virtuosi Pablo Casals and Emanuel Feuermann, is presented in separate chapters with introductory...

Few figures have influenced 20th-century music as much as Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. Their letters, one of the most important sources of information about the background to their music, are here published for the first time. The editors have transcribed, translated and annotated more than 800 letters and from this vast body of material have selected 370 that reflect the lives and times of these two great composers. The letters reveal much about...