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Few composers in the history of music have had so ardent a champion as Sibelius had in Downes, influential music critic for The New York Times . Goss (music, U. of Georgia) explores the backgrounds and professional lives of Sibelius and Downes, particularly focusing on how Sibelius, seized as an art

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A wide-ranging study of musical criticism in America, this book is more than its modest title suggests. . . Carefully researched, well-documented, and very readable, this book is important as a cross-cultural look at European and American musical values, as a discussion of reception history, and as a study of Downes and Sibelius individually. A very original work. --Choice

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