Biography & Autobiography

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…

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…

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…

An Emigrant's Home Letters

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Sir Henry Parkes



Letters written by Henry Parkes to his family in Birmingham, England as he made his way to London and then to Sydney. The letters were gathe…

J.S. Bach

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Albert Schweitzer



Second volume of an analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious wor…

A Life of St. John

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George Ludington Weed



This is a thorough treatment of the Apostle John whose life is intertwined with that of Christ, as one of the inner core and as the disciple…

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…

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