Charles T. Griffes: A Life in Music.

Donna K. Anderson's biography of Griffes (1884-1920), the first in fifty years, is written by a scholar whose knowledge of the subject is unmatched. Her previous publications include Charles T. Griffes: An Annotated Bibliography-Discography (Detroit: Published for the College Music Society by Information Coordinators, 1977), The Works of Charles T Griffes: A Descriptive Catalogue (Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1983), which was a revision of her 1966 thesis at Indiana University, and articles on the composer in both the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980) and the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986). In pursuing her research she benefited from personal interviews with all but one of the composer's siblings, including nearly twenty years of contact with his younger sister, Marguerite Griffes …