Cambridge University Press

The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque is a major contribution to the study of eighteenth-century music ... packed with intriguing insights, appropriate excerpts of music and elegant... — Eighteenth-Century Music More…

a pioneering study of this neglected musician and patron ... A warm and attractive portrait of the empress emerges from this study ... Rice's is a model study of an enchanting subject — Musical Times More…

its influences could well be salutary — BBC Music Magazine More…

a very thorough attempt to elucidate an acknowledged masterwork — Musical Times More…

series. Indeed, if Arnold Whittall's excellent Serialism is anything to go by - the first book in the series and in every respect its guiding light - then clearly we have much to look forward... — Musical Times More…