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Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele (1935-2024)

composer, musicologist, film score composer, journalist, impressionist

  • Juilliard School, Swarthmore College

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The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, 1807-1742?
Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach
The weasel symphony
The definitive biography of P.D.Q. Bach
Thurber's Dogs - Voices from the Gallery
Oh! Calcutta!
Little Suite for Autumn
The birth of Christ, from the York cycle of medieval English mystery plays
In my nine lives, for piano solo
Pascal Sevran
Pascal Sevran (1945-2008)

diarist, singer, actor, television presenter, television producer, composer

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Philippe Autexier
Philippe Autexier (1954-1998)

music historian, composer, musicologist

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Heinrich Ehrlich
Heinrich Ehrlich (1822-1899)

composer, journalist, pianist, musicologist, music educator, music critic

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How to practise on the piano
The ornamentation in Beethoven's pianoforte-works
Dreissig Jahre Künstlerleben
Aus allen Tonarten: Studien über Musik
Ornamentik in Beethovens Klavierwerken
Die Musik-aesthetik in ihrer Entwickelung von Kant bis auf die Gegenwart
How to practice the pianoforte
How to practice the pianoforte
Die Ornamentik in Joh. Seb. Bachs Klavierwerken
Modernes musikleben
Die Ornamentik in Beethovens Klavierwerken
Modernes Musikleben
Notker the Stammerer
Notker the Stammerer (0839-0912)

poet, composer, musicologist, historian

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Der Mönch von Sankt Gallen über die Thaten Karls des Grossen
Taten Kaiser Karls des Grossen
Notkeri poetae Balbuli Liber ymnorum
Die Geschichten von Karl dem Grossen
Taten Kaiser Karls des Grossen
Notkeri poetae - Balbuli - Liber ymnorum
John Pentland Mahaffy
John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919)

historian, classical scholar, classical philologist, literary scholar, translator, composer, man of letters

  • Trinity College Dublin

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Rambles and studies in Greece
A history of classical Greek literature
The progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
An epoch in Irish history
A History of Classical Greek Literature
Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations, and their physical conditions
Descartes
Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander
Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations and their physical conditions: (Delivered at the ..
An Epoch in Irish History: Trinity College, Dublin, Its Foundation and Early ..
Twelve Lectures on Primitive Civilizations, and Their Physical Conditions
Kant's critical philosophy for English readers
Old Greek education
An Epoch in Irish History: Trinity College, Dublin, Its Foundation and Early Fortunes, 1591-1660
The Greek world under Roman sway
The silver age of the Greek world
Greek life and thought
An epoch in Irish history
Alexander's empire
Sketches from a tour through Holland & Germany
What have the Greeks done for modern civilisation?
Social Life In Greece
A history of Egypt under the Ptolemaic dynasty
Problems in Greek history
The Empire of Alexander the Great
A survey of Greek civilization
Descartes
The Greek World Under Roman Sway
The principles of the art of conversation
The Silver Age Of The Greek World
The Progress Of Hellenism In Alexander's Empire
The story of Alexander's empire
What Have The Greeks Done For Modern Civilisation? The Lowell Lectures Of 1908-09
Greek Life and Thought
Prolegomena to ancient history
Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
Greek pictures
Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations, and their physical conditions
Alexander's empire
Greek antiquities
Rambles and studies in Greece
A history of classical Greek literature
Alexander's empire
Old Greek life
What have the Greeks done for modern civilization?
The decay of modern preaching
Greek life and thought
Greek life and thought
Greek pictures, drawn with pen and pencil
Rambles and studies in Greece
Rambles and studies in Greece
The empire of the Ptolemies
A history of classical Greek literature
The Flinders Petrie papyri
A survey of Greek civilization
The post-assaying found on dated pieces of plate in the collection of Trinity college, Dublin
Classical antiquities
Greek life and thought from the age of Alexander to the Roman conquest
Greek life and thought
What have the Greeks done for modern civilisation?
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
An address on education
Rambles and studies in Greece
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcriptions, commentaries and index
A history of classical Greek literature
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
The progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire
The progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire
Antiguedades griegas
A history of classical Greek literature
What have the Greeks done for modern civilization?
Euripides
Social life in Greece
Social life in Greece from Homer to Meander
The plate in Trinity College, Dublin
Old Greek education
Greek antiquites
Gurdjieff
On the numerical symbols used by the Greek historians
The empire of the Ptolemies
The Flinders Petrie papyri
Descartes
A history of Egypt under the Ptolemaic dynasty
Rambles and studies in Greece
An epoch in Irish history
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
What have the Greeks done for modern civilisation?
Descartes
Greek antiquities
Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander
Descartes
The principles of the art of conversation
Florence Ashton Marshall
Florence Ashton Marshall (1843-1922)

composer, conductor

  • Royal Academy of Music

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The life & letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Seventy solfeggi for class-singing
Handel
Seventy solfeggi for class-singing
Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Volume 1
Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Handel
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Volume 1
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Volume 1
Hermann Kretzschmar
Hermann Kretzschmar (1848-1924)

composer, philosopher, musicologist, conductor, music theorist, music educator, musician

  • Leipzig University, Kreuzschule

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Geschichte des neuen deutschen Liedes
Führer durch den Concertsaal
Musikalische Zeitfragen
Gesammelte Aufsätze über Musik und Anderes
Geschichte der Oper
Einführung in die Musikgeschichte
Geschichte der Oper
Festschrift zum 90. Geburtstage Sr. Exzellenz des wirklichen Geheimen Rates Rochus Freiherrn von Liliencron, Dr. Theol. et phil
Führer durch den Konzertsaal
Bach-Kolleg
Bach-Kolleg
Peter Cornelius
Führer durch den Concertsaal
Die jahreszeiten von J. Haydn
Festschrift Hermann Kretzschmar zum 70. [i.e. siebzigsten] Geburtstage
Führer durch den Concertsaal
Gesammelte Aufsätze über Musik und anderes aus den Grenzboden