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Dryden chronicles the composer's vain attempts to recapture the attention of his publisher, Emil Hertzka of Universal Edition, as well as his unsavory attempts to curry favor with Mussolini.... — Opera News More…

J.S. Bach's 'Leipzig' chorale preludes include some of his most intensely beautiful works for organ as well as some of the most challenging for the performer to interpret. While these eighteen... — The American Organist More…

Ronald Ebrecht has provided an essential resource for all who study and play Durufle's music, one that moreover should stimulate further biographical and critical study of this elegant yet enigmatic... — Choir & Organ More…

Janita R. Hall-Swadley's central goal with her new edition of The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt is to communicate the essential meaning of these essays as they were understood by late nineteenth-century... — Music and Letters More…

the first substantial study of the composer in English...[the author] can be congratulated in assembling so much new information — BBC Music Magazine More…

Recommended for general and research libraries — Choice More…

full of interesting anecdotes not to be found elsewhere — The Times More…

Hischak credits Kern in the preface with creating "the sound of the American musical," which is the case he attempts to make with this sorely overdue reference work. In prose that is not overly... — Choice More…