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An important contribution to Wagner studies — The TimesMore…

her biography is an intelligent, provocative and scrupulously researched attempt to make sense of the fragmentary mosaic of the composer's life — BBC Music MagazineMore…

With clarity and erudition at every turn, Professor Hirshberg illuminates the factors behind such a rapid development of a national musical life and style. Extensive, readable footnotes add... — Music and LettersMore…

Enormously well-informed about the practical realities of acoustics, the physics of sound, the history and architecture of music rooms, the design of instruments — Financial TimesMore…

Wiley's study ... is by far the most detailed and illuminating account to date of Tchaikovsky's working relationships with the choreographers and designers of the Russian Imperial Ballet — BBC Music MagazineMore…

an enlightening study which will be of interest both to students of medical history and of social anthropology in its ancient Greek context — The Greek GazetteMore…