लेखक: Stewart Spencer

That Wagner conceived of himself creatively as both man and woman is central to an understanding of his life and art. So argues Jean-Jacques Nattiez in this richly insightful work, where he draws fro …

An enthralling new biography of the woman behind Bayreuth In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner— …

An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world’s first international megastar Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and …

A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German …

Hermann Abert’s classic biography, first published in German more than eighty years ago and itself based on the definitive mid-nineteenth century study by Otto Jahn, remains the most informed and sub …

A selection of Mozart’s letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology. …

In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, l …

‘Scrupulous . . . planned and executed with quite unusual care.’ —Opera There has long been a need for a modern English translation of Wagner’s Ring—a version that is reliable and readable yet at the …

Over 200 works of the well-known Edition Eulenburg series of scores from orchestral and choral literature, chamber music and music theatre are now available in digital format. You can now enjoy the y …

‘They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.’Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his m …