In the field of biography, the more important monographs were those on Guido (1811) by Luigi Angeloni (d. 1842); on Salieri (1827) by I. F. Mosel (d. 1844); on Mozart (1828) by Georg Nicolaus von Nissen (d. 1826) and his wife (Mozart's widow); on Palestrina (1828) by Giuseppe Baini (d. 1844), which was revised in German (1834) by F. S. Kandler (d. 1831), who had previously (1820) written on Hasse; and on Beethoven (1838) by Ferdinand Ries (d. 1838).
Sketches and studies of varying value included many on Haydn (from 1810), as by Georg August Griesinger (d. 1828), Albert Dies (d. 1822) and Giuseppe Carpani (d. 1825); a series (1803-10) on various composers before and after 1800 by Ignaz Ferdinand Arnold (d. 1812); two books (1810, '30) on sundry violinists from Corelli to Paganini by François Fayolle (d. 1852); accounts of Grétry (1814) and Viotti (1825) by the violinist Baillot (d. 1842); eulogies on Paisiello, Monsigny and Méhul (1817-9, collected with others, 1834-7) by Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (d. 1849); and a long line of critiques of Rossini (from 1818) by Carpani (d. 1825), Joseph Louis d'Ortigue (d. 1866), Johann Gottlieb Wendt (d. 1836) and others, including the celebrated plagiarist 'Stendhal' (d. 1842). The singer Mara was treated (1823) by Grosheim (d. 1847); and Malibran (1836) by Isaac Nathan (d. 1864).
Autobiographies appeared in 1830 (2 vols.) by the singing-master Jacopo Gotifredo Ferrari (d. 1842), in 1833 by the organist Rinck (d. 1846), and in 1834 by the singer Blangini (d. 1841).
General works of the dictionary class were published in 1786 (much enlarged after 1800) by Thomas Busby (d. 1838); in 1801 (3 vols., much enlarged, 1820) by Pietro Gianelli (d. 1822?); in 1810-11 (2 vols.) by Fayolle and Choron; in 1814-15 (4 vols.) by Giuseppe Bertini (d. after 1847); and in 1812 (incomplete) by Franz Xaver Glöggl (d. 1839).
More significant were a Bohemian Künstlerlexikon (3 vols., 1815-8) by Gottfried Johann Dlabacz (d. 1820), embodying materials collected since about 1785; the scholarly encyclopædia and bibliography (4 vols., 1826) by Peter Lichtenthal (d. 1853); and a trade-list of books, etc. (from 1817) by Carl Friedrich Whistling, which was later extended by others.
Among the collections of folk-song material may be named for Wales those of the clarinettist and critic John Parry (d. 1851) in 1810 and after; for Sweden that of Erik Gustaf Geijer (d. 1847) and Arvid August Afzelius (d. 1871) in 1814-6 (3 vols.); and for Galicia that of the violinist Lipinski (d. 1861) in 1834.
Persistent efforts were made for ten years from 1812 to establish a strong musical periodical at Vienna, but without permanent result. In 1824 Gottfried Weber (d. 1839) founded his Cäcilia at Mayence and carried it on with incredible industry for fifteen years; in 1842-8 it was continued by Dehn. Valuable influence was exerted during 1824-30 by the Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, edited by Marx (d. 1866). The Eutonia of Breslau and Berlin, devoted to music in schools, lasted nine years, 1828-37. In France the Revue musicale of Fétis (d. 1871)
