Oxford University Press

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…

For the novelty of its theoretical and methodological approach, which transits the domains of musicology, cultural anthropology, and histoire des mentalites, and for the constellation of issues... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association 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…

This enjoyable edition gives us Burns as an imaginary admirer might have followed his writing in all its craft and craftiness — The Times More…