This is the first major book about the music of the Czech composer Leos Janácek.

In this fascinating description of Janácek's most important works The Glagolithic Mass and its history, Paul Wingfield brings together information on all significant aspects of ...

A unique double portrait of the two leading composers of their generation.

A study of two of the greatest composers of the twentieth century through their correspondence, now available for the first time in English in a paperback edition.

Pierrot Lunaire (1912) is one of the most important music theatre works ever written. This is the first guide in English to a work which continues to be performed, broadcast ...

The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and ...

This new guide to Handel's most celebrated work traces the course of Messiah from Handel's initial musical response to the libretto, through the oratorio's turbulent first ...