An Autobiography vs Correspondence: Which Should You Read?

An Autobiography Igor Stravinsky · 1936 ★★★★☆ 3.8 176 pages · ≈ 3 h 16 m · Challenging

An Autobiography chronicles the first half-century of Stravinsky's life, all the while offering his opinions and "abhorrences". A Parsifal performance at Bayreuth? "At the end of a quarter of an hour I could bear no…

Correspondence Hector Berlioz · 1844 ★★★★☆ 3.8 322 pages · ≈ 5 h 58 m · Demanding

The Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself in His Letters and Memoirs is both autobiography and artistic manifesto, gathering the composer's recollections and correspondence into a vivid self-portrait of Romantic…