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Biographical sources for performers on sound recordings

Music Cataloging at Yale [1] ♪ Sound recording cataloging [2]

Internet

Performers' short biographies [3] (short biographies of every performer who has taken part in a recording of Bach's vocal works: mainly singers, conductors, chorus masters, choral and instrumental groups)

yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info [4]: in English, Russian, and Yiddish; performer biographies from the 79 RPM and 33 1/3 RPM eras.
 

Big bands, jazz, etc.

Big bands from Canada [5] | United States [6] | Great Britain [7] | Europe (1920s-1960s) [8]

Solid! [9] online encyclopedia of big band music and classic jazz

Singers

Dutch divas in opera & concert [10] (updates [11])

Grandi tenori [12] | Historical tenors [13] | Biographical list of tenors [14] by John Potter

Great Russian voices [15] (note: archived version of the site)

Great singers [16] from a personal collection; some have dates of birth/death

Malibran-Music [17] specializing in French song

Musicals

Who's who in musicals [18]

Opera

Čeští operni pěvci [19] (Czech opera singers)

Historic opera [20]
   Includes images of singers (with biographical information) (listed near top of page)
   and listings of singers without images
   A [21] | B [22] | C [23] | D [24] | E [25] | F [26] | G [27] | H [28] | IJ [29] | K [30] | L [31] | M [32] | N [33] | OP [34] | QR [35] | S [36] | T [37] | UV [38] | WXYZ [39]

Operaone [40]

Print

Cowden, Robert H. Classical singers of the opera and recital stages: a bibliography of biographical materials. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
   L128 V872 C8 1994

Kutsch, K.J. and Leo Riemens. Grosses Sängerlexikon. 3. erw. Aufl. München: K.G. Saur, c1997.
   ML105 K97 G8 1997

Sources for authority work in cataloging popular music [41]: bibliographies of print sources for
blues [42], country and folk [43], jazz [44], musical theater [45], and miscellaneous popular music [46]

Jacobsson, Stig. Svenska tonsättare: diskografi. [Stockholm] Rikskonserter, 1986, c1985.
   HSR ML156.4 N2 S9

Who's who in opera: an international biographical directory of singers, conductors, directors, designers, and administrators, also including profiles of 101 opera companies. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
   lsf ML102 O6 W5 (LC)

Source URL:https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/srbio

Links
[1] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music [2] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/sound-recording-cataloging [3] http://www.bach-cantatas.com/ [4] http://yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info/ [5] http://www.nfo.net/can/ [6] http://www.nfo.net/usa/ [7] http://www.nfo.net/brit/ [8] http://www.nfo.net/euro/ [9] http://www.parabrisas.com/index.php [10] http://www.dutchdivas.net/index2.html [11] http://www.dutchdivas.net/frames2/updates_english.html [12] http://www.grandi-tenori.com/tenors/ [13] http://www.francoisnouvion.net [14] https://web.library.yale.edu/yalebooks.co.uk/pdf/9780300118735.pdf%E2%80%8E [15] http://web.archive.org/web/20061017073219/http://russia-in-us.com/Music/GRV/ [16] http://www.cantabile-subito.de/index.html [17] http://www.malibran.com/ [18] http://www.musicals101.com/whoswho.htm [19] http://cestipevci.wz.cz/index.htm [20] http://www.historicopera.com/index_main.htm [21] http://www.historicopera.com/jlisting_singer_a.htm [22] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_b.htm [23] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_c.htm [24] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_d.htm [25] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_e.htm [26] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_f.htm [27] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_g.htm [28] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_h.htm [29] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_ij.htm [30] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_k.htm [31] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_l.htm [32] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_m.htm [33] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_n.htm [34] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_op.htm [35] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_qr.htm [36] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_s.htm [37] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_t.htm [38] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_uv.htm [39] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_wxyz.htm [40] http://www.operone.de/ [41] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.htm [42] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.blu [43] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.cou [44] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.jaz [45] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.the [46] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.pop