Library Guides @ VIU: Music History: Classical Period

Primary Sources

Beethoven-Haus Bonn
Digital archive of documents by and about Beethoven: scores, letters, sketches, legal documents, and more.
In Mozart's Words
"Multilingual access to an annotated version of the voluminous correspondence of Mozart and his family - approximately 1,400 letters - that will progressively be made available online on this website."

Classical Period Composers
List of classical Period Composers arranged in alphabetical order. Includes brief biographical information.

Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music. Vol. 2 : Classic to Modern
In this CD set, Discs 7 & 8 cover the classical period.
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Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven by Philip G. Downs
Call Number: ML 195 D68 1992 (Nanaimo campus)
Publication Date: 1992
Haydn, Mozart, & Beethoven : studies in the music of the classical period : essays in honor of Alan Tyson by Alan Tyson
Publication Date: 1998
Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period by Bertil H. Van Boer
Publication Date: 2012
The Classical era : from the 1740s to the end of the 18th century by Neal Zaslaw
Call Number: ML 195 C614 1989 (Nanaimo campus)
Publication Date: 1989