Biography & Autobiography
My Musical Life
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Walter Damrosch
This is the autobiography of the Prussian-born American conductor Walter Damrosch. It includes dozens of anecdotes about many of the great m…
Dr. Benjamin Rush
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Dr. Benjamin Rush
An autobiographical account of Dr. Benjamin Rush, written by himself, containing his views on many subjects including medicine, the American…
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
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Francis Jameson Rowbotham
Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…
Recollections of Johannes Brahms
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Albert Hermann Dietrich and Joseph Victor Widmann
Albert Dietrich, the German composer and conductor, was a friend of Johannes Brahms and the first part of this book includes vivid recollect…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed
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William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
Lapérouse
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Ernest Scott
Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker
Great Captains Unveiled
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B. H. Liddell Hart
"Great Captains Unveiled" by the eminent military historian Sir Basil Liddell Hart comprises the biographies of six commanders who…