Manchester Beethoven Studies
Ed. Barry Cooper and Matthew Pilcher
Manchester University Press 368pp (hb) £90
Academe grinds slow but fine: the essays in this book arose from a three-day symposium 11 years ago, and although its readership will be limited to scholars, it does touch on matters of wider – and even regional – interest. Beethoven never visited Britain, but his interest in Scotland, stimulated by his correspondence with George Thomson and his reading of Walter Scott’s novels, is here nicely delineated by editor
