Oxford University Press

Can you talk about the New World Symphony without talking about race, cultural appropriation, and the challenges of defining 'American' classical music? Douglas Shadle's book, equally valuable... — Washington Post More…

Moonlighting is a revealing lesson in understanding how and why modernist authors engaged with these Beethovenian tropes...Novels, [Waddell] points out, are not just stories or representations... — Eighteenth-Century Music More…

With its wide range of topics, this volume suggests a positive direction for the future of Mendelssohn scholarship; it is a welcome model for 19th-century musicology in general — Choice More…

Jensen speaks with knowledge and authority and adopts a fluent and eminently readable writing style. This is certainly the finest and most comprehensive Debussy biography I have read to date.... — MusicWeb International More…

It takes Barry Millington fewer than 200 pages to say more that is pertinent, up-to-date, and (praise be) actually about Wagner's music than any number of lengthier tomes about this much-chronicled... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Highly Recommended — Choice More…

Not simply an illuminating and informative book but a lively and fascinating one....The clearest, most vivid, and most credible picture known to this reviewer of this most 'universal' of musical... — The New York Times More…