Together, these two books [The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music and The New Harvard Dictionary of Music] deserve a place in any educated person's library.
   --Wilfrid Mellers, Times Literary Supplement

For more than 50 years, The Harvard Dictionary of Music has been a mainstay of all reference collections, but the entries have been restricted to musical topics, omitting biographical articles. Therefore, this source is a natural companion to its venerable ancestor. International in scope and covering all areas of music from the ancient to the present, this important new reference source has information concerning 5,500 individuals...[T]his is an authoritative and significant new reference work which all libraries must purchase. Highest recommendation.
   --Choice

With 5,500 composer and performer entries, useful jazz and blues emphasis, plus an unexpected bonus of bibliographies, [The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music] is comprehensive.
   --Dermot Clinch, The Independent

[A] comprehensive, erudite, authoritative [volume].
   --Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer

Don Michael Randel has done everyone a great service in undertaking the editorship of The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music.
   --Denver Post

Don Michael Randel, former Professor of Music at Cornell University and Professor of Music and President of the University of Chicago, is President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Read More by Don Michael Randel:

• The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• The Harvard Dictionary of Music, Fourth Edition