Browse: Hugh MacDonald (author)

Macdonald's curiosity is boundless. . . and he satisfies it with unfailing scholarship and wit. . . . He gives the most thorough account yet of Hugo Wolf's complicated critical attitude to Wagner... — Opera Magazine More…

Hugh Macdonald's 'biography of a year' is positively postmodern in the way it dissolves its documentary sources into a smoothly running narrative that relishes and thereby transcends the archaic... — Musical Times More…

One of Professor Hugh Macdonald's declared aims is 'to set the composer in the context of French music of the Second Empire', and this spledid biography proves that there is no one better qualifies... — BBC Music Magazine More…

the best written and most authoritative study which the lover of Berlioz's music could wish for — Opera Magazine More…