Must have list of books for conductors (add your own suggestions in the comment section)

What else should be on this list? (If you purchase from this link that will support this blog and Cornell Orchestra tour to Chile in 2012)

Link to list on Amazon

2.  On Becoming a Conductor: Lessons and Meditations on the Art of Conducting by Frank L. Battisti The list author says: “Frank Battisti a true master teacher” $18.47   Used & New from: $16.97    (1 customer review) Create your own Listmania! with this product

1.  Carlos Kleiber: I Am Lost to the World DVD ~ Carlos Kleiber The list author says: “A true master’s rehearsals comes through in this fascinating documentary” $25.99   Used & New from: $20.60 Create your own Listmania! with this product

3.  Pierre Boulez In Rehearsal DVD ~ Pierre Boulez The list author says: “A master conductor in rehearsal” $19.99 Create your own Listmania! with this product

4.  The Score, the Orchestra, and the Conductor by Gustav Meier The list author says: “Must read for any conducting student” $25.01   Used & New from: $19.02    (2 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

5.  The Compleat Conductor by Gunther Schuller The list author says: “Opinionated? Yes. Informative? Yes.” $24.49   Used & New from: $16.99    (9 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

6.  Modern Conductor, The (7th Edition) by Elizabeth A. H. Green The list author says: “Go to text for collegiate conductors” $73.27   Used & New from: $54.25    (7 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

7.  Principles of Orchestration by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov The list author says: “Is Orchestration important for conductors? Yes!” $13.57   Used & New from: $9.00    (21 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

8.  My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music by Anne Midgette The list author says: “Masterclass chapters on important piano concerto repertoire.” $16.30   Used & New from: $8.29    (9 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

9.  The Grammar of Conducting: A Comprehensive Guide to Baton Technique and Interpretation by Max Rudolf The list author says: “A lot of useful analysis of major orchestral works” $104.64   Used & New from: $55.17    (5 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

10.  Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World by Norman Lebrecht The list author says: “Always provocative Lebrecht” $18.45   Used & New from: $10.62    (9 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

11.  The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815 by John Spitzer The list author says: “My colleague and master of Mozart” $57.33   Used & New from: $42.16    (1 customer review) Create your own Listmania! with this product

12.  Haydn’s ‘Farewell’ Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style: Through-Composition and Cyclic Integration in his Instrumental Music (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis) by James Webster The list author says: “My colleague and master of Haydn” $79.00   Used & New from: $49.99    (1 customer review) Create your own Listmania! with this product

13.  Lutoslawski and His Music by Steven Stucky The list author says: “My colleague and master of Lutoslawski” $36.99   Used & New from: $33.56    (1 customer review) Create your own Listmania! with this product

14.  The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Leonard Bernstein The list author says: “Lenny at his best” $32.29   Used & New from: $6.31    (5 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

15.  The Art of Conducting Technique: A New Perspective by Harold Farberman The list author says: “Another viewpoint” $59.95   Used & New from: $36.54 Create your own Listmania! with this product

16.  Orchestral Music: A Handbook by David Daniels The list author says: “Want to know how many horns Mahler 7 has? This will tell you.  Get the Third edition which Amazon does not have.” $56.00   Used & New from: $52.88    (14 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product