Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-222) and index.
Contents:
"Renovating" Bach and Handel : new musical biographies in the German Democratic Republic / Toby Thacker -- The nation's property : Chopin's biography as a cultural discourse / Jolanta T. Pekacz -- Maurice Ravel : private life, public works / Steven Huebner -- Lingering legends : Liszt after Walker / Michael Saffle -- Fanny in Italy : the female composer as travel writer / Marian Wilson Kimber -- This is (y)our life : (re-)writing women's autobiographies in music in nineteenth-century Germany / James Deaville -- Unremarkable musical lives : autobiograhical narratives, music, and the shaping of the self / David Gramit -- A life on film : Renato Castellani's The life of Verdi / John C. Tibbetts.
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