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| New addition: books about Henryk Wieniawski and a book by Henri Temianka |
Aranyi, Adila and Jelly d'
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- The Sisters d'Aranyi
George Allen & Unwin LondonMacleod, Joseph, 1980Auer, Leopold
- My Long Life in Music
Leopold Auer
Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York, 1923
- Violin Playing As I Teach It
Leopold Auer
Dover Publications, Inc. New York, 1980
ISBN 0-486-23917-9
(Unabridged republication of the 1960 Lippincott edition, a republication of the original (1921) edition.)
Bull, Ole
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- Ole Bull : A Memoir
Sara Chapman
Thorp, Bull (Hardcover), 1981
- Ole Bull's Activities in United States Between 1843 and 1880
I Bull, 1982
- Ole Bull : Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot
Einar Haugen
Camilla Cai (Hardcover), 1993
Elman, Mischa
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- Mischa Elman and the Romantic Style
Allan Kozinn
(Hardcover), 1990Enesco, Georges
- Enesco His Life and Times
B. Kotlyarov, translated by B. Kotlyarov and E.D. Pedchenko
Published 1984 ISBN 0-87666-596-2
Paganiniana Publications, Inc., Neptune City, NJ, USA
(Original Russian edition published in 1970, Moscow)
- Contrepoint Dans le Miroir (French)
Georges Enesco
Nagard, 1988
- Geogre Enescu "His Life and Music" ()
Malcolm, Noel
Toccata Press, 1990
Flesch, Carl
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- The Memoirs of Carl Flesch
Carl Flesch (English translation by Hans Keller)
Rockliff, 1957
Da Capo Press, New York, 1979 ISBN 0-306-77574-3 (reprint)
- And Do You Also Play the Violin
Carl F. Flesch
Toccata Press, London, 1991
ISBN 0-907689-36-1 (L17.50)
Grappelli, Stephane
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- Stephane Grappelli (Quality Paperbacks Series)
Raymond Horricks / Paperback / Published 1983
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Haendel, Ida
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- Woman With Violin - The autobiography of Ida Haendel
Ida Haendel
Published in 1970 by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London.
ISBN 0-575-00473-8Heifetz, Jascha
- JASCHA HEIFETZ
Arthur Weschler-Vered
Robert Hale,
Clerkenwell House, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0HT, 1955-57
ISBN 0-7090-2542-4
- HEIFETZ - a pictorial biography
Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod
Paganiana Publications INC., 211 West Sylvania Avenue, Neptune City, N. J. 07753 USA.
ISBN 087666-600-4
Joachim, Joseph
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- Joseph Joachim A Biography
Andreas Moser
Philip Wellby London, 1901
- Letters from and to Joseph Joachim
Nora Bickley
1983, (Publisher Out Of Stock)
Kennedy, Nigel
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- Always Playing
Nigel Kennedy
(Publisher Out Of Stock), 1992Kreisler, Fritz
- Fritz Kreisler
Louis Lockner
The Macmillan Company, USA,
- Fritz Kreisler: Love's Sorrow, Love's Joy
Amy Biancolli
Hardback. 465pp; 19 photographs; list of works and discography.Kremer, Gidon
- Oase Lockienhaus
Gidon Kremer
- Overtoene
Gidon Kremer
- Kindheitssplitter
Gidon Kremer
Lipinski, Karol
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- Lipinski
J. Powrozniak
The only English book about the 19th-century Polish violinist. Hardback, 144 pp.
Menuhin, Yehudi
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- Unfinished Journey : Twenty Years Later
Yehudi Menuhin
Fromm International Publishing Corporation, New York, 1997
(First published in 1976 by Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd.)
ISBN 0-88064-179-7
- Fiddler's moll : Life with Yehudi
Diana Menuhin
- Menuhin : A Family Portrait
Tony Palmer / Published 1992Midori (Gotoh, Midori)
- Midori : Brilliant Violinist (Picture Story Biography)
Charnan Simon / Published 1993Milstein, Nathan
- From Russia to the West : The Musical Memoirs and
Reminiscences of Nathan Milstein
Nathan Milstein, Solomon Volkov
Barrie & Jenkins Ltd., London, Published 1990
ISBN 0-726-4549-7
Nadja (Salerno-Sonnenberg, Nadja)
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- Nadja on My Way
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg / Published 1989
Oistrakh
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- David Oistrakh
Jusefovich, Viktor
Casel & Company Ltd London, 1979
- David Oistrakh : conversations with Igor Oistrakh
Viktor Aronovich ・・zefovich
Paganini, Niccolo
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- Paganini (The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)
John Sugden, Sueden / Paperback / Published 1992
by Omnibus Press
- Paganini
Alan Kendall / Published 1982
- Paganini : His Life and Times
John Sugden / Published 1980
- Paganini : The Genoese
G.I.C. Courcy / Published 1957
- Virtuoso : The Life and Art of Niccolo Paganini, Franz Liszt,
Anton Rubinstein, Ignace Jan Paderwski, Fritz Kreisler,
Pablo Casls, Wanda Landowska
Harvey Sachs / Published 1982Perlman, Itzhak
Powell, Maud
- Fiddler to the World : The Inspiring Life of Itzhak Perlman
Carol H. Behrman / Paperback / Published 1992
- Maud Powell : Pioneer American Violinist
Karen A. Shaffer, Neva Garner Greenwood /
Published 1988
Rode, Pierre
R Rostal, Max
- The life and music of Pierre Rode
Arthur Pougin / Unknown Binding
(containing an account of Rode, French violinist : (translation of Notice sur Rode, violiniste francais, 1874) )
- Beethoven: The Sonatas For Piano And Violin - Thoughts on their Interpretation
Max Rostal
Toccata Press, London, UK
ISBN: 0-90689-05-1 (Hardback edition) (L 12.95)
ISBN: 0-907689-06-X (Paperback edition) (L 6.95)
Spalding, Albert
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- Rise to Follow : An Autobiography
Albert Spalding
1977
Amazon Price: $52.50 (Special Order)Spohr, Louis
- Louis Spohr: "An Autobiography"
Louis Spohr
Reeves and Turner London, 1898Szigeti, Joseph
- With Strings Attached : Reminiscences and Reflections
Joseph Szigeti / Hardcover / Published 1979
Da Capo Press, New York
(Reprinted from the first edition (1947) published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)
Amazon Price: $56.50 (Special Order)
- Szigeti on the Violin
Joseph Szigeti / published 1979
Dover publications, Inc. New York ISBN 0-486-23763
(Unabridged republication of the original (1969) edition. New Preface by Spike Hughes. Introdection. Index. 385 musical examples. Portrait of Szigeti.)
T Tartini, Giuseppe
Temianka, Henri
- Tartini
Lev Solomonovich Ginzburg
Hardback. 381pp.
- Facing the Music
Henri Temianka (autobiography)
David McKay Co., June 1973, Hardback 272 pp.
Alfred Publishing Co., 1980, Paperback 272 pp.
V Vieuxtemps, Henri
- Vieuxtemps
Lev Solomonovich Ginzburg
The only biography in English. Hardback, 190 pp.
W Wieniawski, Henryk
- Wieniawski
W. Duleba
Hardback, 175 pp.
- Henryk Wieniawski, Composer - Virtuoso - Teacher
Edmund Grabkowski
Poznan 1996,
Hardback, 43 pp.
- Henryk Wieniawski, Composer and Virtuoso in the Musical Culture of the XIX and XX Centuries
edited by Maciej Jablonski and Danuta Jasinska
Poznan 2001
Hardback, 334 pp.
- Henryk Wieniawski and the 19th Century Violin Schools, Techniques of Playing, Performance, Questions of Sources and Editorial Issues
edited by Maciej Jablonski and Danuta Jasinska
Poznan 2006
Hardback, 200 pp.
- Henryk Wieniawski kompozytor na tle wirtuozowskiej tradycji skrzypcowej XIX wieku (with an abstract in English)
Renata Suchowiejko
Poznan 2005
Hardback, 297 pp.
Ysaye, Eugene
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- Professor Lev Ginsburg's Ysaye
Lev Solomonovich Ginzburg
1980
Hardback, 578 pp.
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