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The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn. By Floyd and Margaret Grave. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. [x, 382 p. ISBN 0-19-517357-0. $65.] Music examples, tables, bibliographic references, index.
In 1990 Floyd and Margaret Grave published an indispensable handbook for Haydn scholars: Franz Joseph Haydn: A Guide to Research (New York: Garland). With this latest book, they have produced yet another comprehensive and thoroughly documented addition to the Haydn literature. "To undertake a study of Haydn's string quartets," they observe at the outset, "is to enter a domain of music scholarship whose byways far exceed the scope of a single book" (p. 3). However, the ...