Autumn 2002

Group identities: La Spirale and La Jeune France: Nigel Simeone chronicles the activities of two prominent new music societies in inter-war Paris

Braut und Schwester bist du dem Bruder: Wagner, Otto and the three Mathildes: Chris Walton considers the role of one of the Wagner circle’s more shadowy and misunderstood figures

A Levantine life: Giuseppe Donizetti at the Ottoman court: Emre Araci surveys the contribution of the famous composer’s elder brother to the cultural life of Turkey

Piping time: Mozart and the organ: Katalin Komlós traces the extent of Mozart’s involvement with the ‘king of instruments’

Uttered music: David Wright reviews Britten’s musical language (Cambridge UP, £50, $75) by Philip Rupprecht

In memoriam

Earle Brown 1925–2002
Ralph Shapey 1921–2002
Alan Shulman 1915–2002
Mark Ermler 1932–2002
Janet Owen Thomas 1961–2002
Sándor Kónya 1923–2002

Also in the print issue

John Butt: Playing with history: the historical approach to musical performance (Cambridge UP), reviewed by Peter Williams

Carol A. Hess: Manuel de Falla and modernism in Spain, 1898-1936 (University of Chicago Press), reviewed by Andrew Thomson

Christopher Morris: Reading opera between the lines: orchestral interludes and cultural meaning from Wagner to Berg (Cambridge UP), reviewed by Arnold Whittall

Sabine Teller Ratner: Camille Saint-Saëns 1835—1921: a thematic catalogue of his complete works, vol.1 (Oxford UP), reviewed by Nigel Simeone

Lesley Stephenson: Symphony of dreams: the conductor and patron Paul Sacher (Rüffer & Rub), reviewed by Arnold Whittall

Benjamin Suchoff: Béla Bartók: life and work (The Scarecrow Press), reviewed by Richard Drakeford

John Warrack: German opera: from the beginnings to Wagner (Cambridge UP), reviewed by Robert Anderson