Classical musicians behave even worse than pop musicians sometimes. The other memoir I loved was Pete Townshend’s “Who I Am.” He’s incredibly intelligent, really interesting, never short of an opinion, very thoughtful about his own work.

Arthur Rubinstein, the classical pianist, has two volumes of memoirs, “My Young Years” and “My Many Years,” which are unbelievably detailed and just filled with amazing stories from a time when the world was rapidly changing: from the late 19th century, across two world wars, to the 1970s.

Arthur Rubinstein, the classical pianist, has two volumes of memoirs, “My Young Years” and “My Many Years,” which are unbelievably detailed and just filled with amazing stories from a time when the world was rapidly changing: from the late 19th century, across two world wars, to the 1970s.