Publisher Description

Alan Tyson is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is a leading authority on composers and music of the Classical period, especially Mozart and Beethoven. He has made a greater contribution to the dating of sketches and compositions than any other scholar. His international reputation stems from his outstanding contribution to the dating and cataloguing of these composers' sketches, manuscript compositions,and early printed collection of 19 essays in his honour comprises scholarly contributions from an international group of distinguished musicologists under theeditorship of Sieghard Brandenburg. The book also includes a complete checklist of Alan Tyson's writings on music.

Review

... a fine collection of essays, immaculately presented by the Oxford University Press. / H C Robbins Landon, BBC Music, July 1999.`This is excellent musicology... finely presented and well-illustrated volume.'Julian Rushton, TLS.`useful to have a copy around. The list of books, articles, review and translations (of Freud) by Alan Tyson shows the impressive range of his work.'Early Music Review, May 1999

Long Description

Alan Tyson is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is a leading authority on composers and music of the Classical period, especially Mozart and Beethoven. He has made a greater contribution to the dating of sketches and compositions than any other scholar. His international reputation stems from his outstanding contribution to the dating and cataloguing of these composers' sketches, manuscript compositions,
and early printed editions. This collection of 19 essays in his honour comprises scholarly contributions from an international group of distinguished musicologists under the editorship of Sieghard Brandenburg. The book also includes a complete checklist of Alan Tyson's
writings on music.

Review Text

... a fine collection of essays, immaculately presented by the Oxford University Press. / H C Robbins Landon, BBC Music, July 1999.
`This is excellent musicology... finely presented and well-illustrated volume.'
Julian Rushton, TLS.
`useful to have a copy around. The list of books, articles, review and translations (of Freud) by Alan Tyson shows the impressive range of his work.'
Early Music Review, May 1999

Review Quote

'useful to have a copy around. The list of books, articles, review and translations (of Freud) by Alan Tyson shows the impressive range of his work.'Early Music Review, May 1999

Details