Michael Steinberg

What sets Steinberg's writing apart is its appealing mixture of impregnable authority (he knows this music) and purely personal asides (by the end of the book, we know this man). Choral Masterworks... — Washington PostMore…

a treat for those addicted to reading the program notes before the concert begins — BooklistMore…

Steinberg makes the case with remarkable scholarship and analysis that summertime Salzburg . . . was the scene of an attempt to reconstitute Austria as a European cultural center after it had... — The NationMore…