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).

MusicApril 13, 2006

Grace Notes

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

Paul Griffiths
HistoryFebruary 16, 2006

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.

Paul Griffiths
MusicNovember 24, 2004

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.

Paul Griffiths
BiographyMay 27, 2004

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.

Paul Griffiths
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Paul Griffiths

MusicApril 13, 2006

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

HistoryFebruary 16, 2006

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

MusicNovember 24, 2004

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

BiographyMay 27, 2004

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.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.