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Hugh Macdonald: ‘From the Wiener Wochenblatt, 16 October 1802: “Ludwig van Beethoven”’

Klaus Martin Kopitz: ‘Beethoven’s “Elise” Elisabeth Röckel: a forgotten love story and a famous piano piece’

Jos van der Zanden: ‘Republican Beethoven: fact and fiction’

Barbara Barry: ‘Mind the gap: pitch connectors and sectional disjunction in Schubert’s late instrumental music’

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: ‘Music and the word: some thoughts on the ingested “melodrama” of Brahms’s First Symphony’

Reviews

by Andrew Thomson and Arnold Whittall of

Roger Nichols: Francis Poulenc: a biography
Graham Johnson: Poulenc: the life in the songs
François Lesure: Claude Debussy: a critical biography
Julian Johnson: After Debussy: music, language, and the margins of philosophy

Jean-Louis Leleu: Ces mystérieux accords parfaits’: trois études sur la musique d’Arnold Schönberg

Peter Van der Merwe: ‘Three songs of farewell: Monk’s “Eventide”, Beethoven’s “Lebewohl” Sonata and Mahler’s Ninth Symphony’

Robin Maconie: ‘Riddler and cat-woman’

Alan Thurlow: ‘John Sheppard’s Lord’s Prayer’
Stephen Arthur Allen: ‘Redeeming “RVW”: Vaughan Williams’s Variations for brass band, Ninth Symphony (others not excluded) and the summation of a theme’

Arnold Whittall: ‘Centre, periphery: the complementary worlds of Harrison Birtwistle and Frank Denyer’

Reviews

by David Wright, Arnold Whittall and Patricia Howard of

Stephen Lloyd, Diana Sparkes & Brian Sparkes, edd: Music in their time : the memoirs and letters of Dora and Hubert Foss
Jean-Jacques Nattiez: Fidélité et infidélité dans les mises en scène d’opéra
Paloma Ortiz-de-Urbina, ed.: Arnold Schönberg und Roberto Gerhard: Briefwechsel
Carolyn Philpot: Composing Australia: nostalgia and national identity in the music of Malcolm Williamson
Emanuele Senici: Music and the present tense: Rossini’s Italian operas in their time

Articles

Peter Van der Merwe: ‘Three songs of farewell: Monk’s “Eventide”, Beethoven’s “Lebewohl” Sonata and Mahler’s Ninth Symphony’

Robin Maconie: ‘Riddler and cat-woman’

Alan Thurlow: ‘John Sheppard’s Lord’s Prayer’
Stephen Arthur Allen: ‘Redeeming “RVW”: Vaughan Williams’s Variations for brass band, Ninth Symphony (others not excluded) and the summation of a theme’

Arnold Whittall: ‘Centre, periphery: the complementary worlds of Harrison Birtwistle and Frank Denyer’

Reviews

by David Wright, Arnold Whittall and Patricia Howard of

Stephen Lloyd, Diana Sparkes & Brian Sparkes, edd: Music in their time : the memoirs and letters of Dora and Hubert Foss
Jean-Jacques Nattiez: Fidélité et infidélité dans les mises en scène d’opéra
Paloma Ortiz-de-Urbina, ed.: Arnold Schönberg und Roberto Gerhard: Briefwechsel
Carolyn Philpot: Composing Australia: nostalgia and national identity in the music of Malcolm Williamson
Emanuele Senici: Music and the present tense: Rossini’s Italian operas in their time

• The ENO Mask of Orpheus
• Messiah in 1740s Dublin
• VW's Serenade in New York
• Antoine Favre Dotted
• Notes and Notes inegales
• Boulez's sur Incises
• Wagner's Marseillaise

• Music in Bourbon France - Satie's simple little prelude reading cage
• On Mozart 3, Brahms & Clara Schumann
• Lutyens in Liverpool

Articles

Robin Maconie: ‘Messiaen: confessions’
Benjamin Dwyer: ‘Joycean aesthetics and mythic imagination in the music of Frank Corcoran’
Brian Newbould: ‘On Mozart 2: Mozart and the Prague terraces’
Patricia Howard: ‘Guadagni the composer: a modest addition to his portfolio’
Christopher Mabley: ‘Johann’s Passion 3: further observations on Bach’s self-composing in his spiritual choral and organ music’
John Harley: ‘Who was William Watton?’
Richard Turbet: ‘Mr Bird, Mr Ferdinand and Mr Holborne: new lessons’
Eric L. Altschuler & Edward D. Latham: ‘Weelkes and Rossi: a concert 420 years in the making’

Reviews

by Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall and David Wright of

Pierre Boulez: Music lessons: the Collège de France lectures
Oliver Soden: Michael Tippett: the biography
Jonathan Impett: Routledge handbook to Luigi Nono and musical thought
Arnold Schoenberg: Schoenberg’s correspondence with American composers
Mark Berry: Arnold Schoenberg
Emily Abrams Ansari: The sound of a superpower: musical Americanism and the Cold War
Chris Price: The Canterbury Catch Club 1828: music in the frame