Paul Griffiths

Paul Griffiths is the author of several books on music, including, most
recently, The Penguin Companion to Classical Music and The Substance of Things Heard: Writings About Music (Rochester).

Grace Notes Grace Notes

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's journey toward stillness has been halted by the roar and rawness of his latest piece.

Apr 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Paul Griffiths

The Man Who Heard It All The Man Who Heard It All

Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music reviews the world of Western art music, expressing the magnificence and melancholy of its own age.

Feb 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Paul Griffiths

Little Big Man Little Big Man

No musical life has been told more often than Wagner's. Biographies have wafted incense around him, or been incensed by him.

Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Paul Griffiths

Truly, Madly, Deeply Truly, Madly, Deeply

It's only a little fughetta in C minor, a piece J.S. Bach wrote into a notebook he was keeping for the purpose of teaching his eldest son.

May 27, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Paul Griffiths

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