Browse: Scarecrow Press (publisher), Classical Composers

They [the authors] offer valuable material based on interviews with Pachmann's friends and family, creating a rounded, vivid portrait — International Piano More…

Suchoff's survey is valuable precisely because it is so compact. Placing summaries of the various ethnic musics Bartok studied in one place allows the reader to see how much Bartok's criteria... — Ethnomusicology (Journal) More…

Thomas Quigley's Brahms bibliography, which details almost 3,200 books and articles with copious cross-reference and mostly helpful annotation, is clearly the result of monumental effort, and... — Musical Times More…

Schroeder provides a worthwhile and useful exploration of Schubert's biography....Schroeder offers an often valuable descriptive and interpretative discussion of how Schubert's music inspired... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

This definitive work on Georges Bizet's life, first published in 1991, has bee n revised and augmented, drawing on significant research gathered for a 2011 German edition - now translated into... — Opera America More…

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…

Michael D. Searby's new book focuses on a single decade from Ligeti's sixty-year career as a composer, years during which his style underwent a major change, reembracing certain traditional elements... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association 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…