George B. Stauffer

Where Are the Women Composers?

An engaging multiple biography draws the reader deep into the lives of four British women who attempted to forge careers in the male-dominated field of music composition.

Alban Berg’s Dissonances

Berg’s music, with its lyrical combination of tonal and atonal techniques, is closer to late Romanticism than to the strict modernism of his contemporaries Schoenberg and Webern.

The Master Recycler

Around 1730 Johann Sebastian Bach began to recycle his earlier works in a major way.

Emotional, Operatic Bach

Beethoven’s Symphonies: The Revolutions

Why Bach Moves Us

John Eliot Gardiner’s ‘Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven’