Notable music books of 2013

— Martin Geck, Richard Wagner: A Life in Music, trans. Stewart Spencer (Chicago)

— Nigel Simeone, ed., The Leonard Bernstein Letters (Yale)

— Annegret Fauser, Sounds of War: Music in the United States During World War II (Oxford)

— Alan Rusbridger, Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible (FSG)

— John Eliot Gardiner, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Knopf)

— Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century (Penguin)

— Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke, Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976, Volume 6 (Boydell and Brewer)

— Stephen Walsh, Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure (Knopf)

— David Trippett, Wagner's Melodies: Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity (Cambridge)

— Balínt András Varga, From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir (University of Rochester Press)

— Beth E. Levy, Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West (University of California Press)

— Leslie Sprout, The Musical Legacy of Wartime France (California)

— Terry Teachout, Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Gotham)