In compiling this website, I have made use of the following books:

Adamson, John: The Princely Courts of Europe 1500 - 1750
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1999

Bach, C.P.E.: Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
Published by W.W. Norton and Company. 1949

Barbier, Patrick: The World of the Castrati - The History of an
Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenon Published by Souvenir Press. 1996

Beaussant, Philippe: Francois Couperin
Published by Amadeus Press. 1990

Boyden, David: The History of Violin Playing from its Origins to
1761, and its Relationship to the violin and violin music Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1990

Buelow, George. J.: The Late Baroque Era - from the 1680s to 1740
Published by Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632. 1993

Burden, Michael: The Purcell Companion
Published by Faber and Faber Ltd, London WC1N 3AU. 1994

Burney, Charles: Music, Men and Manners in France and Italy 1770
Published by Eulenburg Books, London. 1974

David, Hans T. and Mendel, Arthur: The New Bach Reader - a life of
Johann Sebastian Bach in letters and documents revised and expanded by Christoph Wolff Published by W.W. Norton and Co., Inc. 1999

Donington, Robert: Baroque Music Style and Performance - A Handbook
Published by Faber Music. 1982

Gaertner, Heinz: John Christian Bach - Mozarts Friend and Mentor
Published by Amadeus Press. 1994

Gill, Dominic: The Book of the Violin
Published by Phaidon Press Limited. 1984

Heller, Karl: Antonio Vivaldi - The Red Priest of Venice
Published by Amadeus Press, Portland, Oregon. 1991

Harnoncourt, Nikolaus: The Musical Dialogue - Thoughts on Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart
Published by Amadeus Press. 1984

Hogwood, Christopher: Music at Court
Published by The Folio Society, London. 1977

Kolneder, Walte and Karl-Heinz, Jurgens: J.S. Bach Lebensbilder
Published by Gustav Lubbe Verlage GmbH Bergisch Gladbach. 1984

Lester, Joel: Bachs Works for Solo Violin - Style, Structure and
Performance Published by Oxford University Press. 1999

Mersmann, Hans: Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, selected and
edited by Hans Mersmann. Published by Dover, 1972 from original edition published by J.M. Dent and Sons. Ltd. 1928

Michels, Ulrich: Atlas zur Musik
Published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co KG, München and Bärenreiter Verlag Karl Vötterle GmbH & Co KG. 1985

Mozart, Leopold: A treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing
Translated by Editha Knocker
Published by Oxford University Press. 1986

North, Roger: Roger North on Music - Being a Selection from his Essays written during the years c. 1685 - 1728
Transcribed from the Manuscripts and Edited by John Wilson.
Published by Novello and Co. Ltd., London. 1959

Publig, Maria: Mozart
Published by Bonechi Verlag Styria.1997

Quantz, Johann Joachim: On Playing the Flute
Translated with notes and an introduction by Edward R. Reilly.
Published by Schirmer Books, An imprint of Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1633 Broadway, NY 10019-6785. 1985

Robbins Landon, H.C.: 1791 Mozarts Last Year
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1989

Robbins Landon, H.C.: Five Centuries of Music in Venice
Published by Thames and Hudson Ltd., London. 1991

Robbins Landon, H.C.: The Mozart Essays
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1995

Sadie, Julie Anne: Companion to Baroque Music
Published by Oxford University Press. 1998

Schroeder, Jaap: Bachs Solo Violin Works - a performers guide
Published by Yale University Press. 2007

Stevens, Denis: The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi
Published by Faber and Faber Ltd., London WC1N 3AU. 1980

Wade-Matthews, Max and Thompson, Wendy: The Encyclopedia of Music - Instruments of the Orchestra and the Great Composers
Published by Hermes House. 2003

Wolff, Christoph: Johann Sebastian Bach - The Learned Musician
Published by Oxford University Press. 2001

Art: A World History
Published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd., London. 1998

Dipingere La Musica: Musik in de Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts
Catalogue from the Kunthistorisches Museum Wien
Published by Skira editore, Milano. 2001

The Hoogstseder Exhibition of Music and Painting in the Golden Age
Waanders Publishers, Zwolle. 1994