Cambridge University Press

This is very much the academic's Wagner, pinned out dry on the dissection table ... [an] impressive and information-packed volume — BBC Music Magazine More…

This collection illustrates the value of disciplinary cross-fertilization — The Times More…

Laura Tunbridge pursues her subject with consistently perceptive critical acumen, exploring the late style in all its variety ... [Her] approach ... is certainly welcome, not only in helping... — Nineteenth-Century Music Review More…

The most revealing and engagingly written single-volume biography of Claude Debussy, by the doyen of French music experts — Classic FM Magazine More…

It is ... a cracking good read as we learn about Wagner's abilities to turn himself into a 'brand' or to act as his own 'PR agent'. An important book, too, as Vazsonyi foregrounds an aspect... — Opera Magazine More…

a worthy contribution to our newly broadening view of this pivotal moment in European music — The Times More…

It is no exaggeration to say that it is the most important contribution to Purcell scholarship since the appearance of Franklin Zimmerman's analytical catalogue of Purcell's music in 1963 ...... — Musical Times More…