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Wagner Afresh

Hans Keller I Saw the World End: A Study of • Wagner's Ring Deryck Cooke (Oxford £6.50,£3.95) The Wagner Companion Ed. Peter Burbidge and,Richard Sutton (Faber £12.50) — rather......

Stravinsky

The Composer and his Works ERIC WALTER WHITE This exhaustive, marvellously authoritative study (to quote The Times's review of the first edition) comprises an account of......

Selected Letters Of Gustav Mahler

Edited by KNUD MARTNER Alma Mahler, the composer's widow edited and published some 400 of his lettersin their original German in 1924. This highly important collection now......