David Wyn Jones

David Wyn Jones's triumphant volume tells the story of musical Vienna...the thoroughness of his research has resulted in vivid and compelling portraits of Vienna...and Jones proves an impeccably... — Gramophone MagazineMore…

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... — BBC Music MagazineMore…

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

The author provides an accessible, insightful, and sympathetically humanistic portrait of the day-to-day existence of the man, bringing to light commonplace practical matters of the life of... — ChoiceMore…

Here, at last, is a Beethoven who behaves like a real composer. That he does so is thanks to the careful accumulation of circumstantial detail with which Wyn Jones, a dispassionate and even-handed... — BBC Music MagazineMore…

This must have been a very difficult book to edit, and Simon Keefe (together with David Wyn Jones, who planned the volume) deserves unqualified congratulations for having engaged the work of... — Music and LettersMore…

The author provides an accessible, insightful, and sympathetically humanistic portrait of the day-to-day existence of the man, bringing to light commonplace practical matters of the life of... — ChoiceMore…