Browse: Biographies, Classical Composers, Arthur Sullivan

this is a quietly ground-breaking study that will usefully shake received opinion and stimulate further investigation — Literary Review More…

The resources section...will be the part from which researchers will gain most benefit — Choice More…

a beautifully produced door-stopper of a book — The Times More…

Ainger sums up much of the received wisdom gracefully and provides some new material regarding his subjects' ancestors and the occasional fresh perspective on their contemporaries — Nineteenth-Century Music Review More…

As a sustained exploration of these stage works in the context of nineteenth century consumerism it has no rivals and is to be recommended for the insights it provides into the relationship of... — Music and Letters More…