The principal aim of this book, a much-revised shortened version of the original Music guide, remains to enhance peoples pleasure and understanding in listening to music. It is designed for those with little experience or musical knowledge.

Published as a tribute to the late Stanley Sadie, these eleven essays look at compositional and performance matters, consider new archival research and provide an overview of work since the bicentenary in 1991.

Distinguished musicologists Julie Anne and Stanley Sadie have traveled across Europe to compile an unparalleled directory of more than three hundred houses and museums where composers have lived and worked.

This study has been revised to include new finds about the composition dates of several Mozart works.

The eagerly awaited publication of the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians will be a major event in the world of music in the year 2000.