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From the Autumn 2006 Musical Times, available now

In memoriam: György Ligeti (1923–2006)

Articles

Kati Agócs: ‘The mechanics of culture: new music in Hungary since the 1990s’

Larry Bomback: ‘Wagner’s access to Minnesinger melodies prior to completing Tannhäuser’

Alan Davison: ‘Franz Liszt and the development of 19th-century pianism: a re-reading of the evidence’

Glen Carruthers: ‘The (re)appraisal of Rachmaninov’s music: contradictions and fallacies’

John Harley: ‘Merchants and privateers: a window on the world of William Byrd’

Samantha Owens: ‘The Stuttgart Adonis: a recently discovered opera by Johann Sigismund Cousser’

Reviews

by Christopher Fox, Richard Langham Smith, Andrew Thomson, Chris Walton, and Arnold Whittall of:

François Lesure & Denis Herlin, edd.: Correspondance (1872–1918)
Margaret Cobb, ed.: Debussy’s letters to Inghelbrecht
Jean-Michel Nectoux: Harmonie en bleu et or
Annegret Fauser: Musical encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair
Katherine Ellis: Interpreting the musical past
Chris Villars, ed.: Morton Feldman says
David Lewin: Studies in music with text
Margarita Mazo & Millan Sachania, edd.: Igor Stravinsky: Les Noces
Maureen Carr, ed.: Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat: a facsimile of the sketches
Felix Meyer & Heidy Zimmermann, edd.: Edgard Varèse
Raymond Holden: The virtuoso conductors

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