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From the Winter 2020 Musical Times, available now

 

Articles

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