BRAHMS: THE FOUR SYMPHONIES. By Walter Frisch. New York: Schirmer Books, 226 pp. $35 (hardback)
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IVES, WIVES, AND LOVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS. By Fritz Spiegl. 256 pp. New York, NY: Marion Boyars Publishers Inc., 1997. $35 (hardcover)
GUSTAV MAHLER'S SYMPHONIES: CRITICAL COMMENTARY ON RECORDINGS SINCE 1986. By Lewis M. Smoley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 353 pp. $75.00
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