Books about classical music

This Classical Music Book CD includes over 160 libretti of operas and operettas, and lyrics of hundreds of lieder/songs in their original languages, plus 118 books about classical music, biographies of composers, and composer correspondence all in English. We also include 25 .mus files that require the use of free "Finale Notepad" software, which you can download at http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/ It shows the musical score and plays the music (synthesized, not recorded), with the cursor automatically moving ahead across the score to show you what notes are being played.

On the CD, you can open the books by clicking on the titles in the index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

You can see the complete table of contents below. Use the Find function on your browser (under Edit) to search for specific composers or operas.

---

Table of Contents of Books about Classical Music:

Books about music, musicians, composition, performance, singing, and dance; and fiction about music

• Music in general
• Charles Dickens and Music by James Lightwood
• Critical and Historical Essays by Edward MacDowell
• The Merry-Go-Round (essays) by Carl Van Vecten
• Popular History of the Art of Music by W.S.B. Mathews
• Spirit and Music by H. Ernest Hunt
• The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
• Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson
• Music appreciation
• The Eurhythmics of Jacques-Dalroze
• For Every Music Lover, a series of practical essays on music by Aubertine Woodward Moore
• How to Listen to Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel, 1897
• Music as a Language: Lectures to Music Students by Ethel Home, 1916
• Music Talks with Children by Thomas Tapper, 1898
• Musical Portraits, Interpretations of 20 Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
• The Old Fogy, His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker
• Symphonies and Their Meaning, third series: Modern Symphonies by Philip Goepp, 1913
• Vom Musikalisch-Schonen by Edwuard Hanslick (in German)
• Music composition
• The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Essays before a Sonata by Charles Ives
• Lessons in Music From, Manual of Analysis by Percy Goetchius
• Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Gehrkens
• The Pianoforte Sonata: Its Origin and Development by J.S. Shedlock
• Plays, Acting, and Music: a Book of Theory by Arthur Symons, 1909
• A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in 40 Lessons by Friedrich Lehmann
• Musical performance and performers
• Advice to Young Musicians by Robert Schumann
• Cardinal Newman as a Musician by Edward Bellasis
• Essential in Conducting by Karl Wilson Gehrkens
• Famous Violinists of Today and Yesterday by Henry Lee, 1899
• Great Pianists on Piano Playing by James Francis Cooke, 1913
• Great Violinists and Pianists by George Ferris, 1881
• Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians by John Runciman
• On Conducting by Richard Wagner
• The Orchestral Conductor: Theory of His Art by Hector Berlioz
• Piano and Song by Friedrich Wiecks
• The Pianolist, a Guide for Pianola Players by Gustav Kobbe
• Tintinnalogia or the Art of Ringing, 1671, by Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
• Violin Mastery by Frederick Martens
• Musical instruments
• Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by John Shortage
• Piano Tuning, a simple and accurate method for amateurs by J. Cree Fisher, 1907
• The Recent Revolution in Organ Building by George Laing Miller
• The Violin: Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart
• Violin Making by Walter Mayson, 1909
• Dance
• The Art of Stage Dancing, A Manual of Stage-Craft by Ned Wayburn
• The Dance, 3000 BC to 1911 AD
• Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo by E.w. Hawkes, 1914
• From the Ball-Room to Hell by T.A. Faulkner
• The Highland Fling and How to Teach It by Horatio Grant
• The Morris Book, a History of Morris Dancing by Cecil Sharp and Herbert Macilwaine, 1907
• A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini, 1772
• Singing and singers
• The Brain and Voice in Speech and Song by F.W. Mott, 1910
• Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing by Enrico Caruso and Luisa Tetrazzini
• The Child-Voice in Singing by Francis Howard
• Great Singers, first series, Faustina Bordoni to Henrietta Sontag by George Ferris, 1891
• Great Singers, second series, Malibran to Titiens by George Ferris, 1891
• The Head Voice and Other Problems, Practical Talks on Singing by D.A. Clippinger
• How to Sing by Lilli Lehmann
• On Singing and Music
• A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing by Robert Bridge
• The Psychology of Singing by David Taylor
• The Renaissance of the Vocal Art by Edmund Myer
• Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Thomas Fillebrown
• Sixty Years of California Song
• Style in Singing by W.E. Haslam
• Vocal Mastery by Harriette Brower
• Voice Production in Singing and Speaking, Based on Scientific Principle by Wesley Mills
• Fiction
• A Cathedral Singer by James Lane Allen
• The Fifth String by John Philip Sousa
• The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
• The Old Flute-Player, a romance of today by Edward Marshall and Charles Dazey
• The Second Violin by Grace Richmond

Composer biographies

• Among the Great Masters of Music by Walter Rowlands
• Beethoven: the Man and the Artist by Friedrich Kerst, translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel
• Beethoven, a Character Study by George Alexander Fischer, 1905
• Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Finck
• Chopin: the Man and His Music by James Huneker
• Chopin as Man and Musician by Frederick Niecks
• F. Chopin by F. Liszt (in French)
• Experiences of a Bandmaster by John Philip Sousa (short)
• Great German Composers by George Ferris
• Great Italian and French Composers by George Ferris, 1878
• Gedenkrede auf Wolfgang Amade Mozart, in German, by Richard Beer-Hofmann
• Handel by Edward Dent
• Hayden by J. Cuthbert Hadden
• Hayden by John Runciman, 1908
• Life of Chopin by Franz Liszt
• Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, volume 14, Composers by Elbert Hubbard
• The Love Affairs of Great Musicians by Rupert Hughes, 1903
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Edward MacDowell: his work and ideals by Elizabeth Fry Page
• Edward MacDowell: a great American tone poet, his life and music by John Porte, 1922
• Memoires de Hector Belioz comprenant 1803-1865, volume 1
• Mozart: the Man and the Artist by Friedrich Kerst, translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel
• Purcell by John Runciman, 1909
• Musical Memories by Camille Sant-Saens, 1919
• Portrais et Etudes: Cesar Franck, C.M. Widor, Edouard Colonne, Jules Garcin, Charles Lamoureux, Faust par robet Schumann, Le Requiem de Brahms, Lettres Inedites de Geoges Bizet
• Sketch of Handel and Beethoven, two lectures by T. Hanly Ball, 1864
• Wagner by John Runciman, 1913
• Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas by John Runciman, 1913
• My Life by Richard Wagner
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The World's Great Men of Music by Harriet Brover, 1922

Composer correspondence

• Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, translated by Lady Wallace
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Letters of Franz Liszt, collected by La Mara and translated by Constance Bache
• Volume 1: From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso
• Volume 2: From Rome to the End
• Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, volume 1

Operas and Operettas

• A Book of Operas, their histories, their plots, and their music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
• A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel
• Chapters of Opera Being Historical and Critical Observations And Records Concerning the Lyric Drama in New York from Its Earliest Days Down to The Present Time,  by H.E. Krehbiel,
• The Opera by R.A. Sheatfeild
• Operas Every Child Should Know by Dolores Bacon
• Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W.J. Henderson
• The Standard Operas: their plots, their mustic, their composers: a handbook by George Upton
• Bluebeard, a parody of an opera by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Daniel Francois Auber 1782-1871, libretto of opera in French

• La Muette de Portici

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 - 1827, libretto of opera in German

• Fidelio (1814 - J. Sonnleithner after J.N. Bouilly "Léonore ou l'amour conjugal")

Hector Berlioz 1803 - 1869, libretti of operas

• Béatrice et Bénedict (1862, Berlioz, after Shakespeare)
• Lélio ou le Retour à la vie (libretto, Hector Berlioz)
• La damnation de Faust (1846, Hector Berlioz, after Goethe)

George Bizet 1838 - 1875, libretti of operas, in French

• Les Pêcheurs de perles, Oper 3 Acts, Carré, Eugène Cormon [Pierre-Étienne Piestre], 30 Sept. 1863 Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique
• Djamileh, 1 Act, Louis Gallet after Musset, 22 May 1872 Paris, Opéra-Comique
• Carmen, 3 Acts, 4 Bilder, Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy after Prosper Mérimée, Recitative by Ernest Guiraud, 3 March 1875 Paris, Opéra-Comique

Claude Debussy 1862 - 1918

• Pelléas et Mélisande (1893-1902 - Maurice Maeterlinck). libretto of opera in French
• Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, a guide to the opera by Lawrence Gilman

Gilbert and Sullivan, libretti of operettas in one file, in English

• Gondoliers
• Grand Duke
• H.M.S. Pinafore
• Iolanthe
• The Mikado
• Pirates of Penzance
• Princess Ida
• Ruddigore
• The Sorcerer
• Thespis
• Trial by Jury
• Utopia, Limited
• Yeomen of the Guard
• Patience

George Frideric Händel 1685 - 1759

• Libretti of operas, in English
• Acis and Galatea (1718, John Gay)
• Admeto (first performance: Haymarket Theatre, London, 31 gennaio 1727)
• L’Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato (1740, Charles Jennens )
• Ariodante (1735, by composer, after Salvi)
• Athalia (1733, Racine)
• Esther (1718 - John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope  )
• Giulio Caesare (1724, Nicola Haym) (in Italian)
• The Choice of Hercules (1745, Thomas Broughton)
• Jephtha (1752)
• Judas Maccabaeus (1747, Morell, after Bible)
• Rinaldo (1711, Rossi)
• Semele (1744, William Congreve)
• Other texts, in English
• Alexander Balus - An Oratorio (??)
• Alexander's Feast -  An Ode (1736)
• An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day - An Ode (1739, Words by Newburgh Hamilton)
• Belshazzar - An Oratorio (1745, Words by Charles Jennens )
• Deborah - An Oratorio (1733, Words by Samuel Humphreys)
• Israel in Egypt - An Oratorio (1739, Words by ? Charles Jennens )
• Joseph - A sacred drama (1744, Words by James Miller)
• Joshua - A sacred drama (1748, Words by Thomas Morell)
• Messiah - An Oratorio (1742, Words by Charles Jennens)
• An Occasional Oratorio (1746, Words by Newburgh Hamilton)
• Samson - An Oratorio (1743, Words by Newburgh Hamilton)
• Saul - An Oratorio (1739, Words by Charles Jennens)
• Solomon - An Oratorio (1749, Words attributed to Newburgh Hamilton)
• Susanna - An Oratorio (1749, Words attributed to Newburgh Hamilton)
• Theodora - An Oratorio (1750, Words by Thomas Morell)
• The Triumph of Time - An Oratorio (1957, Words by Thomas Morell)

Nicola Francesco Haym 1678-1729

• Amadis of Graul, 1714, in English and Italian

Modest Moussorgsky 1839 -1881, libretto of opera, in Russian (transliterated)

• Boris Godunov, (St. Petersburg, 1874)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 - 1791, libretti of the complete operas in the original language, as noted

• Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38 (13.5.1767 University of Salzburg) libretto in Latin
• La finta semplice, K.51 (1.5.1769 Archbishop's Court, Salzburg) libretto in Italian
• Bastien und Bastienne, K.50 (2.10.1890 Architektenhaus, Berlin) libretto in German
• Mitridate, Re di Ponto, K.87 (K.74a) (26.12.1770 Teatro Regio Ducal, Milano) libretto in Italian
• Ascanio in Alba, K.111 (17.10.1771 Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan) libretto in Italian
• Il sogno di Scipione, K.126 (? 1.5.1772 Archiepiscopal Residence, Salzburg) libretto in Italian
• Lucio Silla, K.135 (26.12.1772 Teatro Regio Ducal, Milano) libretto in Italian
• Die gartnerin aus Liebe, K.196 (13.1.1775 Redoutensaal, München) libretto in German
• Il re pastore, K.208 (23.4.1775 Archiepiscopal Residence, Salzburg) libretto in Italian
• Zaide, K.344 (1779; 27.1.1866, Frankfurt) libretto in German
• Idomeneo, ossia Ilia ed Idamante, K.366 (29.1.1781 Court Theatre, München) libretto in Italian
• Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K.384 (16.7.1782 Burgtheater, Wien) libretto in German
• L'oca del Cairo, K.422 (1784; 4.1860, Frankfurt) liretto in Italian
• Lo sposo deluso, ossia La Rivalità di tre donne per un solo amante, K.430 (1784) libretto in Italian
• Der Schauspieldirektor, K.486 (7.2.1786 Schönbrunn Palace, Wien) libretto in German
• Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 (1.5.1786 Burgtheater, Wien) libretto in Italian
• Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, K.527 (29.10.1787 Nationaltheater, Praha) libretto in Italian
• Così fan tutte, ossia La Scuola degli Amanti, K.588 (26.1.1790 Burgtheater, Wien) libretto in Italian
• La Clemenza di Tito, K.621 (6.9.1791 Nationaltheater, Praha) libretto in Italian
• Die Zauberflöte, K.620 (30.9.1791 Theater auf der Wieden, Wien) libretto in German

Jacques Offenbach 1819 - 1880, libretto of opera, in French

• Orphée aux Enfers, Opéra-bouffe 2 Acts and 4 Bilder 21 Oct. 1858 Bouffes-Parisiens Paris
• New Version of Les Contes D'Hoffman, opera in 4 acts

Giacomo Puccini 1858 - 1924, libretti of operas, in Italian

• Le Villi (31.5.1884 Teatro dal Verme, Milan)
• Edgar (21.4.1889 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
• Manon Lescaut (1.2.1893 Teatro Regio, Turin)
• La Bohème (1.2.1896 Teatro Regio, Turin)
• Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henry Murger
• Scenes de la Vie Boheme by Henry Murger
• Tosca (14.1.1900 Teatro Costanzi, Rome)
• Madama Butterfly (17.2.1904 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
•  Il Trittico: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi (14.12.1918 Metropolitan Opera, N.Y.)
• Turandot (25.4.1926 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)

Henry Purcell  1659 - 1695, libretti of operas, in English

• Dido and Eneas (1689, Tate Nahum)
• The Indian Queen (1695, final masque by D. Purcell; J. Dryden and R. Howard)

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov 1844 – 1908, libretti of operas

• Mayckaya Noch' (9.1.1880 Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg) (May Night), in Russian (transliterated)
• Snegurochka (29.1.1882 Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg) (The Snow Maiden), in Russian (transliterated)
• Mozart i Salieri (25.11.1898 Solodovnikov Theatre, Moscow) (Mozart and Salieri), in Russian (transliterated)
• Boyarinya Vera Sheloga [rev prolog to 1st rev of Pskovityanka] (15.12.1898, Solodovnikov Theatre, Moscow), in Russian (transliterated)
• Servilia (1.10.1902 Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg), in English
• Pan Voyevoda (3.10.1904 St Petersburg Conservatory), in English

Gioacchino Rossini 1792 - 1868, libretti of complete operas

• Demetrio e Polibio (1806; 18.5.1812 Teatro Valle, Rome), in Italian
• La cambiale di matrimonio (3.11.1810 Teatro San Moisè, Venice), in Italian
• Le Comte Ory, in French
• L'equivoco stravagante (26.10.1811 Teatro del Corso, Bologna), in Italian
• L'inganno felice (8.1.1812 Teatro San Moisè, Venice), in Italian
• Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare (14.3.1812 Teatro Comunale, Ferrara), in Italian
• La scala di seta (9.5.1812 Teatro San Moisè, Venice), in Italian
• La pietra del paragone (26.9.1812 Teatro alla Scala, Milan), in Italian
• L'occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia (24.11.1812 Teatro San Moisè, Venice), in Italian
• Il Signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo (27.1.1813 Teatro San Moisè, Venice), in Italian
• Tancredi (6.2.1813 Teatro La Fenice, Venice), in Italian
• L'italiana in Algeri (22.5.1813 Teatro San Benedetto, Venice), in Italian
• Aureliano in Palmira (26.12.1813 Teatro alla Scala, Milan), in Italian
• Il turco in Italia (14.8.1814 Teatro alla Scala, Milan), in Italian
• Sigismondo (26.12.1814 Teatro La Fenice, Venice), in Italian
• Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra (4.10.1815 Teatro San Carlo, Naples), in Italian
• Torvaldo e Dorliska (26.12.1815 Teatro Valle, Rome), in Italian
• Almaviva (20.2.1816 Teatro Argentina, Rome), known as Il barbiere di Siviglia, in Italian
• La gazzetta ossia  Il matrimonio per concorso (26.9.1816 Teatro de' Fiorentini, Naples), in Italian
• Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia (4.12.1816 Teatro del Fondo, Naples), in Italian
• La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (25.1.1817 Teatro Valle, Rome), in Italian
• La gazza ladra (31.5.1817 Teatro alla Scala, Milan), in Italian
• Armida (11.11.1817 Teatro San Carlo, Naples), in Italian
• Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia (27.12.1817 Teatro Argentina, Rome), in Italian
• Mosè in Egitto (5.3.1818 Teatro San Carlo, Naples), in Italian
• Moïse et Pharaon, (= Mose in Egitto), in French
• Adina, o Il califfo di Bagdad (1818; 22.5.1826 Real Theatro de S. Carlos, Lissabon), in Italian
• Riccardo e Zoraide (3.12.1818 Teatro San Carlo, Naples), in Italian
• Ermione (27.3.1819 Teatro San Carlo, Naples), in Italian
• Eduardo e Cristina (24.4.1819 Teatro San Benedetto, Venice), in Italian
• La donna del lago (24.9.1819 Teatro San Carlo, Naples), in Italian
• Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre (26.12.1819 Teatro alla Scala, Milan), in Italian
• Maometto secondo (3.12.1820 Teatro San Carlo, Naples), in Italian
• Matilde Shabran, (24.2.1821 Teatro Apollo, Rome), known as Matilde di Shabran, in Italian
• Zelmira (16.12.1822 Teatro San Carlo, Naples), in Italian
• Semiramide (3.2.1823 Teatro La Fenice, Venice), in Italian
• Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro (19.6.1825 Théâtre Italien, Paris), in Italian
• Le Siège de Corinthe (9.10.1826 Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, Paris), in French
• L'assedio di Corinto, (= Le Siege de Corinthe), in Italian
• Le Comte Ory (20.8.1828 Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, Paris), in French
•  Il Conte Ory (= Le Comte Ory), in Italian
• Guillaume Tell (3.8.1829 Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, Paris), in French
• Guglielmo Tell (= Guillaume Tell), in Italian
• Ivanohè, in French
• L'ape musicale, in Italian
• Roberto Bruce, in Italian

Johann II Strauss 1825 - 1899, libretto of opera, in German

• Die Fledermaus (5.4.1874)

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky 1840 - 1893, libretti of operas, in Russian (transliterated)

• Eugen Onegin 1877-78 (Moskow, 1879)
• Jolanthe 1891-1892

Giuseppe Verdi 1813 - 1901, libretti of the complete operas, in Italian

• Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio (17.11.1839 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 2 acts, Temistocle Solera
• Un Giorno di Regno (5.9.1840 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)  Melodramma giocoso in 2 acts, Felice Romani, after the comedy Le Faux Stanislas by Alexandre Vincent Pineu-Duval
• Nabucco (9.3.1842 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)  Opera in 4 parts, Temistocle Solera, after the play Nabucodonosor by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue
• I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (11.2.1843 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 4 acts, Temistocle Solera, after the poem of the same name by Tommaso Grossi
• Ernani (9.3.1844 Teatro la Fenice, Venice) Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria  Piave, after the play Hernani by Victor Hugo
• I Due Foscari (3.11.1844 Teatro Argentina, Rome) Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Lord Byron's play The Two Foscari
• Giovanna d'Arco (15.2.1845 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Temistocle Solera, after Schiller's drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans
• Alzira (12.8.1845 Teatro San Carlo, Naples) Opera in a prologue and 2 acts, Salvatore Cammarano, after Voltaire's tragedy Alzire, ou les Américains
• Attila (17.3.1846 Teatro la Fenice, Venice) Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Temistocle Solera (and Francesco Maria Piave), after the play Attila, König der Hunnen by Zacharias Werner
• Macbeth (14.3.1847 Teatro della Pergola, Florence) Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Shakespeare's play
• I Masnadieri (22.7.1847 Her Majesty's Theatre, London) Opera in 4 acts, Andrea Maffei, after Schiller's drama Die Räuber
• Il Corsaro (25.10.1848 Teatro Grande, Trieste) Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Lord Byron's poem The Corsair
• La Battaglia di Legnano (27.1.1849 Teatro Argentina, Rome) Opera in 4 acts, Salvatore Cammarano, after the play La Battaille de Toulouse by Joseph Méry
• Luisa Miller (8.12.1849 Teatro San Carlo, Naples) Opera in 3 acts, Salvatore Cammarano, after Schiller's drama Kabale und Liebe
• Stiffelio (16.11.1850 Teatro Grande, Trieste) Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the play Le Pasteur, ou L'Évangile et le Foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois
• Rigoletto (11.3.1850 Teatro la Fenice, Venice) Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the drama Le Roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo
• Il Trovatore (19.1.1853 Teatro Apollo, Rome) Opera in 4 acts, Salvatore Cammarano (and Leone Emanuele Bardare), after the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez
•  La Traviata (6.3.1853 Teatro la Fenice, Venice) Opera in 4 parts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the play La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
• I Vespri Siciliani (13.6.1855 Académie Impériale de Musique, Paris) Grand opera in 5 acts, Augustin Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier, after their libretto Le Duc d'Albe
• Simon Boccanegra (12.3.1857 Teatro la Fenice, Venice) Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave (and Giuseppe Montanelli), after the play Simon Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez
• Aroldo (rev. of Stiffelio) (16.8.1857 Teatro Nuovo, Rimini) Opera in 4 parts, Francesco Maria Piave
• Un Ballo in maschera (17.2.1859 Teatro Apollo, Rome)  Opera in 3 acts, Antonio Somma, after Scribe's libretto Gustave III
• La Forza del destino (10.11.1862 Bolshoi Theatre, St. Petersburg) Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, (and Andrea Maffei) after the play Don Alvaro, o La Fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, and Schiller's drama Wallensteins Lager
• Macbeth (19.4.1865 Théâtre Lyrique, Paris)
• Don Carlo (13.6.1855 Académie Impériale de Musique, Paris) Grand opera in 5 acts, Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, after Schiller's dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien
• Aida (24.12.1871 Opera House, Cairo) Opera in 4 acts, Antonio Ghislanzoni, from a scenario by Auguste Mariette.
• Otello (5.2.1887 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 4 acts, Arrigo Boito, after Shakespeare's Othello.
• Falstaff (9.2.1893 Teatro alla Scala, Milan), opera in 3 acts, Arrigo Boito, after Shakespeare's Falstaff and Henry IV.

Antonio Vivaldi 1678 - 1741, libretto of opera, in Italian

• Teuzzone (1719)

Richard Wagner 1813-1883, libretti of the complete operas,  in German

• Die Feen (1834; 29.6.1888 Munich)
• Das Liebesverbot (29.3.1836 Magdeburg) (Die Novize von Palermo)
• Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (20.10.1842 Dresden)
• Der fliegende Holländer (2.1.1843 Dresden)
• Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (19.10.1845 Dresden)
• Lohengrin (28.8.1850 Weimar)
• Tristan und Isolde (1859; 10.6.1865 Munich)
• Tristan and Isolda
• Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (21.6.1868 Munich)
• DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN (13.17.8.1876 Festspielhaus, Bayreuth):
• 1. Das Rheingold (1854; 22.9.1869 Munich)
• 2. Die Walküre (1856; 26.6.1870 Munich)
• 3. Siegfried (1869; 16.8.1876 Festspielhaus, Bayreuth)
• 4. Götterdämmerung (17.8.1876 Festspielhaus, Bayreuth)
• Parsifal (26.7.1882 Festspielhaus, Bayreuth)
• Parsifal retold by Oliver Huckel
• Parsifal, Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera by H.R. Haweis
• Opera Stories from Wagner by Florence Akin, 1915
• Stories of the Wagner Opera by H.A. Guerber
• Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall
• Wagner's Tristan and Isolde: an Essay on the Wagnerian Drama, 1912, by George Ainslie Hight

Lyrics to Songs and Leider and Oratorios

• Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country by Dubose Heyward and Hervey Allen
• Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, collected by John Lomax
• Divine Songs, attempted in the easy languge of children by Isaac Watts
• The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics edited by Frederic Knowles
• The Good Old  Songs We Used to Sing 1861 to 1865
• Hymns for Christian Devotion, Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination by J.G. Adams and E.H. Chapin
• Hymns of the Greek Church
• The Liberty Minstrel by George Clark
• Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age edited by A.H. Bullen
• The Otterbein Hymnal, prepared by Edmund Lorenz
• The Shanty Book, part 1, collected by Richard Runciman Terry
• Soldier Songs and Love Songs by A.H. Laidlaw, 1898
• Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp, collected by John Lomax
• Standard Oratorios, Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers: a Handbook by George Upton
• A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs by Hubert Shearin
• Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, selected and edited by J. Potter Briscoe
• Verses for Children and Songs for Music by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections an Ntaure, collected by Edmund Garrett
• With the Colors: Songs of the American Service by Everard Jack Appleton
• Beethoven
• Beethoven's Hymn to Joy (from the Ninth Symphony
• Berlioz
• Bizet
• Borodin
• Brahms
• collection 1
• collection 2
• collection 3
• collecton 4
• collection 5
• collection 6
• collection 7
• Chopin
• Debussy
• Dvorak
• Faure
• collection 1
• collection 2
• John Hartley, Yorkshire Ditties
• Mahler
• Mendelssohn
• collection 1
• collection 2
• Moussorgsky
• Mozart
• Prokofiev
• Puccini
• Purcell
• Rimsky-Korsakov
• collection 1
• collection 2
• Rubinstein
• Saint-Saens
• Shubert
• collection 1
• collection 2
• collection 3
• collection 4
• collection 5
• collection 6
• collection 7
• collection 8
• collection 9
• collection 10
• Schumann
• collection 1
• collection 2
• collection 3
• collection 4
• collection 5
• Scriabin
• Tchaikovsky
• Verdi
• Vivaldi
• Wagner

---

Scores in .mus format

These .mus files that require the use of free "Finale Notepad" software, which you can download at http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/ It shows the musical score and plays the music (synthesized, not recorded), with the cursor automatically moving ahead across the score to show you what notes are being played.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

• Brandenburg Concerto Number 2, in F major, BWV 1047
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• Brandenburg Concerto Number 5, in D major, BWV 1050
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement

Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827)

• Grand Fugue for String Quartet, Opus 133
• Quartet #1 in F major, Opus 18, number 1
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• Quartet #2 in G major, Opus 18, number 2
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• Quartet #13, Opus 130
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• fifth movement
• sixth movement
• Quartet #14, Opus 131
• Quartet #16, Opus 135
• String Quartet C, Opus 51
• number 1
• number 2
• number 3
• number 4
• Three Quartets:
• in F major, Opus 59, number 1
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• in E minor, Opus 59, number 2
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• in C minor, Opus 59, number 3
• first movement
• second movemetn
• third movement
• fourth movement
• complete

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

• String Quartet C Minor, Opus 51, number 1

• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

• Prelude in E Minor, Opus 28, No. 4

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

• String Quartet in B flat major, Opus 1 number 1 (1793)
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• fifth movement
• String Quartet in C major, Opus 74 number 1
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• String Quartet in F major, Opus 74 number 2
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• Emperor Quartet, Opus 76, number 3, second movement

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

• String Quartet #1 in G major, K. 80
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• String Quartet #2 in D major, K. 155
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• String Quartet #3 for 2 violins, viola, and violincello, K. 156
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• String Quartet #17 in B flat major, K. 458
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• Theme from Piano Sonata in A Major, K.331

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

• Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, Op. 99 no. 3

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

• String Quartet #1 in A minor, op. 41, no. 1
• first movement
• second movement
• third movement
• fourth movement
• fifth movement