Description

These inexpensive books are wonderful value. Each of them contains, besides accounts of the life and of the whole output of the composer concerned, four appendices, a calendar, a catalogue of works, personalia, and a bibliography. There are many musical illustrations. Some of the outstanding volumes among the twenty-five so far issued are Beethoven: Marion Scott; Bizet: Winton Dean; Chopin: Arthur Hedley; Haydn: Rosemary Hughes; Mozart: Eric Blom; Purcell: J. A. Westrupp; and Verdi: Dyneley Hussey."