Music books

The Merry-Go-Round

Carl Van Vechten

The Merry‑Go‑Round is a collection of essays by Carl Van Vechten that opens with a sprawling meditation on…

Über die Schönheit häßlicher Bilder. Ein Vademecum für Romantiker unserer Zeit

Max Brod

Unicorns

James Huneker

Essays Before a Sonata

Charles Ives

Overtones, a book of temperaments: Richard Strauss, Parsifal, Verdi, Balzac, Flaubert, Nietzsche, and Turgénieff

James Huneker

How to Appreciate Music

Gustav Kobbé

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 5 in C minor Opus 67

Ludwig van Beethoven

Chopin and Other Musical Essays

Henry T. Finck

Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians

John F. Runciman

Franz Haydn's 104th Symphony [1794-5] MIDI file

Joseph Haydn

Études: Baudelaire, Paul Claudel, André Gide, Rameau, Bach, Franck, Wagner, Moussorgsky, Debussy, Ingres, Cézanne, Gauguin

Jacques Rivière

Portraits et souvenirs

Camille Saint-Saëns

Acht Briefe an eine Freundin über Clavier-Unterricht

Johanna Kinkel

Music and Its Masters

O. B. Boise