— 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)