This book is the first full-length biography in English of the composer of Don Pasquale and Lucia di Lammermoor. It is based on first-hand research in archives and libraries at ...

This book is the first full-length critical biography in English of Vincenzo Bellini, and it completes the author's trilogy of biographies of the outstanding pre-Verdian ...

Rossini was without a doubt the most highly sought after composer of his time, in an age when opera was not only more popular than we can imagine, it was also a powerful ...

The most thorough and detailed English biography of the great Russian composer.