33579. Assmann, Jan, 1938-. Die Zauberflöte : Oper und Mysterium. München : Carl Hanser, 2005, 383pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue hardcover, $85
Appears to be out of print. ISBN 3446206736

33484. Bächi, Julius, 1902-. Berühmte Cellisten : Porträts der Meistercellisten von Boccherini bis Casals und von Paul Grümmer bis Rostropovitch. Zürich : Atlantis, 1973, erweiterte und überarbeitete Ausgabe, 168pp., fair dust-jacket badly wrinkled on rear panel but complete, very good red cloth, $12
First published in 1961. ISBN 3761104251

35304. Blom, Eric, 1888-1959, ed.. Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians. Volume II. C-E. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1955, 5th edition, 996pp., very good blue cloth, cover slightly worn, $12
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35303. Blom, Eric, 1888-1959, ed.. Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians. Volume I. A-B. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1959, 5th edition, xliv, 1078pp., very good blue cloth, but cover lightly worn and scratched, $12
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20172. Brachvogel, Albert Emil, 1824-1878. Friedemann Bach. Ein Künstlerroman. Hrsg. v. Emil Ernst Ronner. Wiesbaden: Emil Vollmer Verlag, 1970, no date, around, 192pp., very good dust-jacket, very good small gray cloth, $12
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34071. Coussemaker, Charles Edmond Henri de, 1805-1876. Drames Liturgiques du Moyen Age (Texte et Musique). A Facsimile of the 1860 Rennes Edition. New York: Broude Brothers, 1964, xix, 347pp., very good large white and black cloth, but ex-library with spine call number label, rear pocket, stamps, appears unused, $50
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34130. d'Eaubonne, Francoise. La vie de Chopin. Récit de Francoise d'Eaubonne. Variétés. Paris: Éditions du Sud / Sélection des Amis du Livre, 1964, 267pp., good light blue cloth but with foxing on covers and endpapers, illustrated throughout with photos and drawings, Nr. 551 of 700 printed for members of the Amis du Livre. $15
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33515. Fassett, Agatha. The naked face of genius. Béla Bartók’s American years. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1958, 367pp., dust-jacket scuffed along spine and edges, some foxing especially on rear panel, very good gray half-cloth, $15
The author was born and grew up in Hungary, came to the US in the late 1920s and studied music in NY with Glensder Kelberine. 1947 married Stephen B. Fassett. Lived then in Boston.

21672. Gossett, Philip, et al. New Grove Masters of Italian Opera. Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini. New York: W.W. Norton, 1983, 1st American edition in book form with additions, 353pp., very good sewn paperback, previous owner's name, $10
The Composer biography series. ISBN 0393300897

32003. Graf, Max, 1873-1958. Deutsche Musik im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Berlin : Siegfried Cronbach, 1898, 198pp., good original light blue hardcover, cloth torn at top of spine, frayed at bottom, paper of main section very good, advertising section browning, a few minor pencil marks, previous owner's name: E. L. Boas, $150
Series: Am Ende des Jahrhunderts. Rückschau auf 100 Jahre geistiger Entwickelung, 5. Bound at end: 46pp. Schriften aus dem Verlage von Siegfried Cronbach, Berlin W., 1898.

29677. Gruber, Gernot. Mozart & posterity. Translated by R.S. Furness. Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1994, ix, 277pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue hardcover, $9
. ISBN 1555531946

4319. Guttmann, Alfred. Musik in Goethes Wirken und Werken. Berlin-Halensee, Wunsiedel (Ofr.) Bayern: Deutscher Musikliteratur-Verlag, 1949, 1. Auflage, 171pp., very good red half-cloth, $15
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19011. Keller, Otto. Geschichte der Musik. Berlin: Gebrüder Paetel, 1928, 7. Auflage, 459, 442pp., two volumes, very good blue cloth, with some foxing and wear, $30
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29110. Kerner, Dieter. Krankheiten grosser Musiker. Stuttgart: Friedrich-Karl-Schattauer, 1963, 218pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, $7.5
Umschlagentwurf: Volkmar Kötter. Chapters on Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Max Reger, Debussy, Mahler, Alban Berg, Arnold Schönberg.

32884. Kolb, Annette. Mozart. Wien: Bermann-Fischer, 1937, 1.-4. Auflage, 313pp., sewn PAPERBACK, adequate reading copy, quite worn, dark brown stain on top corner of cover and first 45 pages, some foxing on foredges, $7.5
Kolb was a skilled and insightful student of music and a famous mediator between France and Germany. Her adventurous life of high culture and exile was little recognized before the Munich exhibit on her in the late 1960s. When an English translation appeared in 1998, the reviewer enthused: "a token of a lost era, not overly fanciful in its narrative it must be said, but a glowing image of what Mozart meant to pre-war German society.".

25654. Köster, Maren, Hrsg.. Hanns Eisler : ’s müsst dem Himmel Höllenangst werden. Im Auftrag der Stiftung Archiv der Akademie der Künste herausgegeben von Maren Köster. Hofheim : Wolke, 1998, Erstausgabe, 302pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, slight wear to corners, $30
Redaktionelle Mitarbeit, Dagmar Garling. Archive zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts ; Bd. 3. Includes Inventar der Musikautographe im Hanns-Eisler-Archiv": pp. 201-296. Essays by Gerd Rienäcker, Georg Knepler, Maren Köster, Klaus Völker, Peter Schweinhardt, Wolfgang Thiel, Lynn Matheson, Joy Calico, Kersten Glandien, Eckhard John. ISBN 3923997833

1735. Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. Orpheus in Paris: Offenbach and the Paris of his Time. Translated from the German by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. New York: Knopf, 1938, stated First American Edition, 373 + xiv, very good orange cloth, variant binding color, $25
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32368. Landon, H. C. Robbins, 1926-2009. Essays on the Viennese Classical style: Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. New York: Macmillan Co., 1970, stated First American Edition, xi, 187pp., very good dust-jacket, lamination wrinkled, very good blue cloth but with some pencil underlining neatly erased in the first few pages, $12
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33213. Leather, Edwin. The Mozart score. Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979, stated First Edition, 177pp., good but worn and slightly soiled dust-jacket, very good black hardcover, light wear, $7
Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Governor and commander in chief, Bermuda; born in Canada, but 30 years in England as Member of Parliament, businessman, and radio and television personality. "Karl Reuben, a young Israeli scientist, has taken refuge in Vienna after the execution of his beautiful Arab mistress in Israel. […] he disappears in Vienna." An art dealer comes across an original Mozart score etc. ISBN 0385155646

30720. Ludwig, Franz, 1889-1955. Ludwig Wüllner : sein Leben und seine Kunst. Mit vierzehn Beiträgen zeitgenössischer Persönlichkeiten. Leipzig : Erich Weibezahl, 1931, 252pp., very good red cloth, some light foxing, $20
In the series: Biographien deutscher Schauspieler, dealing with the great tenor and performer Ludwig Wüllner, 1858-1938. Short contributions in the front section are by Gerhart Hauptmann, Will Vesper, Johannes Volkelt, Emil Ludwig, Adolf Weißmann, Coenraad Valentin Bos, Max Steinitzer, Paul Riesenfeld, Therese Malten, Arthur Kahane, Albert Bassermann, Alexander Moissi, Irene Triesch, Yvette Guilbert. Followed by extensive biography of the Wüllner with 41 plates. Son of the director of the Konservatorium in Köln, he studied first philology, then music, debuting in the Kölner Gürzenich-Orchester under his father in 1889. An acting career followed, then great singing tours notable for his dramatic intensity (Grosses Sänger-Lexikon).

30255. Mattusch, Udo, 1957-, Bearb.. Sammlung Jacques Offenbach : Notenmanuskripte und Notendrucke. Köln : Böhlau, 1999, 1999, 202pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $65
Mitteilungen aus dem Stadtarchiv von Köln. 87. Heft. Archival guidebook to a part of the Offenbach collection of the Kölner Stadtarchiv. ISBN 3412100994

32270. Monson, Karen. Alban Berg. London and Sydney: Macdonald General Books, Macdonald and Jane's, 1980, xvi, 396pp., very good dust-jacket, small piece of dark tape on front cover, very good black cloth, light foxing on top foredge, $10
"Thanks to a wealth of recent research, Karen Monson has been able to give a more detailed analysis of his music, and a more penetrating picture of his private life, than has previously been possible. She tells of his early years studying with Arnold Schoenberg and the uproar caused by his first compositions; his marriage to Helene Nahowski, who gave up the possibility of a musical career to devote all her energies to her husband's interests; his early struggles and the eventual recognition of the twelve-tone technique with the success of his opera, Wozzeck; his ten-year love affair with Hanna Fuchs-Robertin, which explodes the popular belief in his perfect marriage; his obsession with Hanna and her children throughout the writing of the Lyric Suite and his second opera, Lulu; his death in 1935 before Lulu was completed. ". ISBN 0354044648

32457. Myers, Rollo H., 1892-, ed.. Twentieth century music. New York: The Orion Press, 1970, 3d printing, x, 289pp., very good blue cloth, spine faded, $12
21 essays by various authors. Includes: Theodor W. Adorno, New Music and the Public: Some Problems of Interpretation [a translation of "Neue Musik, Interpretation, Publikum" first published in Neue Deutsche Hefte 41, 1957, then in Klangfiguren] - Frederick W. Sternfeld, Music and Cinema.

32999. Parakilas, James. Piano roles : three hundred years of life with the piano. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999, x, 461pp., very good dust-jacket, light wear, very good black half-cloth, light wear at top of spine, $12
Heavily illustrated. Numerous essays by other authors and by Parakilas. ISBN 0300080557

29678. Reagon, Bernice Johnson. We’ll understand it better by and by : pioneering African American gospel composers. Edited by Bernice Johnson Reagon. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992, xii, 384pp., very good dust-jacket, very good large yellow cloth, light foxing on top foredge, $12
. ISBN 1560981660

8459. Rosenfeld, Paul, 1890-1946. Discoveries of a Music Critic. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936, stated First Edition, 402pp., good blue cloth, some edgewear, spine titles faded, otherwise good copy, $10
Reviews and short essays on the phonograph, Monteverde, Bach, Mozart, Cimarosa, Beethoven, Blinka, The Nazis and Wagner, Cosima Wagner, Richard Strauss, Ravel, Bloch, Strawinsky, Bartok, Hindemith, Milhaud, Auric, Shostakovich, Weill and Gebrauchsmusik, Gershwin, Cowell, Recent American Operas, Ives, Harris, Copeland, Chavez, Riegger, and others.

29742. Rutz, Hans, 1889-1973, Hrsg.. Claude Debussy. Dokumente seines Lebens und Schaffens. Auswahl und verbindender Text von Hans Rutz. München: C. H. Beck, 1954, 264pp., very good dust-jacket, very good small orange cloth, $12
Rutz wanted to be a conductor but his musical aspirations were hindered by injuries from WWI. "Der Musik selbst aber blieb er sein ganzes Leben intensiv verbunden, auch als Komponist feinsinniger Lieder" (Michael Debus). As a beloved Waldorf school teacher he was famous for his personalized compositions for his classes.

18760. Ryding, Erik / Pechefsy, Rebecca. Bruno Walter. A World Elsewhere. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, 487pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray half-cloth, fresh copy, $23
. ISBN 0300087136

31010. Sablosky, Irving, ed.. What they heard : music in America, 1852-1881, from the pages of Dwight’s journal of music. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1986, xiv, 317pp., dust-jacket with call number on spine, in library plastic sleeve, very good red cloth but ex-library with pocket, stamps, text appears unused, $9
. ISBN 0807112585

29846. Sanders, Ronald. The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980, stated First Edition, 469pp., very good dust-jacket, very good brown half-cloth, $17
Based on extensive interviews and research. Includes 6pp. discography. ISBN 0030194113

26693. Schemann, Bertha. Drei Frauen um Johannes Brahms. Ein Gedenkwort zu seinem 50. Todestag. Berlin: Afas - Musikverlag Hans Dünnebeil, 1948, 24pp., very good small stapled paper wraps, $25
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29152. Schrade, Leo, 1903-1964. Monteverdi. Creator of Modern Music. New York: Norton, 1969, 1st paperback edition, 384pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $10
N490. Norton Library.

34143. Tosi, Pier Francesco, 1653-1732. Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. Sala Bolognese nel Luglio: Arnaldo Forni Editore, 1985, 134pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $17
Reprint of the 1904 edition Napoli : Di Gennaro & Morano, 1904 nell'esemplare conservata presso il Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale di Bologna. First published in 1723. Bibliotheca musica Bononiensis. Sezione 2, N. 50.