Boydell & Brewer

Editing and presentation are as fine as anyone could wish and Fifield's introductions to each chapter could not be better written. -- Best Buy5 Stars — Classic FM Magazine More…

Susan Tomes's insights as a performer and teacher are fully matched by her literary eloquence: at the piano or on the page, her style is marked by undemonstrative, perceptive and elegant turns... — BBC Music Magazine More…

As a sourcebook on cultural background and on such figures as patrons, publishers and performers who flit through the background of the lives of the great Vienna-based composers, this study is... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Lockwood has made vital contributions to Beethoven scholarship, and in the present volume he offers scholarship about Beethoven scholarship. Highly recommended. -- B. J. Murray — Choice More…

This book reveals [Tomes'] talents as a writer, too, one with a capacity for imaginative enquiry and a gift for the telling phrase... as natural and compelling a communicator in words as she... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Rewarding ... Enlightening ... An exciting new addition to the musical and historical literature — British Music Society More…