Synthesises and refocuses the wealth of recent research into two of Arnold Schoenberg's major compositions from the years 1899-1909.

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an

Situates Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique within French Romanticism and considers influences, literary as well as musical, that shaped its conception.

Offers an introduction to one of the most important and influential piano concertos in the history of Western music. It combines an account of the work's genesi

The String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth c