Experimental Music

tion and understand the impossible position of the early biographers and scholars, whose sources were few and inaccurate. The history of performance is presented showing the incredible delay in the programming of great masterpieces. He notes that no accurate evaluation of the operas is yet possible. Appendices include a listing of the music not found in the collected works and a listing of all the compositions in chronological order. The lack of a formal bibliography is not reprehensible in this case, since the final chapter includes not only the names of important studies but valuable commentary as well. The book is adequately indexed. Mr. Brown is to be congratulated on a brilliant study which will do much to enhance the position of Schubert among the great immortals.