Biographical Resources

General Biographical Dictionaries and Indices

Baker, Theodore, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky.  Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, 8th ed.  New York: Schirmer Books; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.  Ref ML105 .B16 1991

Blume, Friedrich, ed.  Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart : Allgemeine

Enzyklopadie der Musik.  Kassel; New York: Barenreiter; Stuttgart: Metzler, 1994, 2000.  Ref ML100 .M92 1994 vols. 1-15

 Randel, Don Michael, ed. The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.  Ref ML105 .H38 1996

World Biographical Index of Music  Composers, Conductors, Instrumentalists and Singers.  Munchen; New Providence: K.G. Saur, 1995.  Ref ML105 .I56 1995 vol. 1-2

Region/Culture-Specific Dictionaries and Indices

Cowden, Robert H.  Classical Singers of the Opera and Recital Stages: a Bibliography of Biographical Materials.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.  Ref ML128 .S295 C7 1994

Floyd, Samuel A. and Marsha J. Reisser.  Black Music Biography: an Annotated Bibliography.  White Plains, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1987.  Ref ML 128 .B3 F6 1987

Hitchcock, H. Wiley, and Stanley Sadie, eds.  The New Grove Dictionary of American Music.  London: Macmillan; New York: Grove’s Dictionaries of Music, 1986.  Ref ML101 .U6 N48 1986 vv. 1-4

Ho, Allan and Dimity Feofanov, eds.  Biographical Dictionary of Russian/Soviet Composers.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.  Ref ML106 .S68 B56 1989

Morton, Brian, and Pamela Collins, eds.  Contemporary Composers.  Chicago: St. James, 1992.  Ref ML390 .C735 1992                    

Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, eds.  The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 1994.  Ref ML105 .N67 1994

Slonimsky, Nicolas.  Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians.  New York : Schirmer Books, 1997. Ref ML105 .S612 1997

Sowinski, Wojciech.  Les Musiciens Polonais et Slaves.: Dictionnaire Biographique.  New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.  Ref ML106 .P7 S7 1971

Biographies of Theatre’s Giants

 Deathridge, John, and Carl Dahlhaus.  The New Grove Wagner.  New York: Norton, 1984.  ML410 .W1 D325 1984b

Rumyantsev, Pavel  and Constantin Stanislavski.  Stanislavski on Opera..  Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, trans.  New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1975.  ML429 .S8 R813

Sadie, Stanley.  The New Grove Mozart.  New York: Norton, 1983.  ML410 .M9 S155 1983

Compiled by Kathleen Abromeit and Leslie Roberts

Edited by Leslie Roberts, July 6, 2001