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Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from...

Johannes Brahms was until now widely regarded as the archetype of the «absolute musician». Based on new research, the study shows how close autobio...

20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each o...

The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music...

Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of t...

Five kondakarian manuscripts dating from the 11th to 13th century belong among the oldest witnesses of Russian church music. The Slavonic church te...

To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role – at ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky remains to this day one of the most-performed Russian composers. Based on recent studies and source editions, this book de...

With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahler’s symphonies reall...

Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music als...

In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or h...

This monograph is an authoritative study of the œuvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligeti’s key works ar...

«Music is no mere play of sound, no mere tonal texture, but has a significant psychic, spiritual/intellectual and social dimension. In other words:...

Mozart’s ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music. He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works...

The present autobiography sets out from the contrast between "establishment" and "outsiders" in science and scholarship. It portrays a number of pr...

The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholar...

While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gu...

With the terms «visionary» and «despot», the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality of Gustav Mahler. Opening up a terra incogni...

With this study the author «opened up a previously locked door of Beethoven research» (Martin Geck). The book presents conclusive answers to questi...