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This Companion, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private

A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

Still chiefly known as the extravagant composer of the Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz was an artist caught in the crossfire between the academic classicism of t