University of California Press

Highly recommended. Yields rich, evocative insights into a period of modernist music making now receding from consciousness." CHOICE "Joy Calico, however, writes with an ease and fluidity that... — The Times More…

The topic of this book needed to be aired. . . . With scholastic and historical flair, the author provides documentation and a dash of conceptual support for an intriguing inquiry — Music and Letters More…

Brown-Montesano has set out to write something that will be of value to directors and singers in search of a character and general opera lovers who simply want to understand more about Mozart.... — Classical Music More…

Beethoven, A Life continues the journey towards a more complex and nuanced picture of the great composer. . . . Caeyers seeks to unravel the networks that influenced Beethoven's career, to paint... — Financial Times More…

Frigyesi's work is a tour-de-force that in a single volume attempts (and to this reviewer's mind largely succeeds) to present the frame of mind and character of a whole generation of Hungarians... — Washington Times More…