The Mozart-Bibliographie is based on the holdings of the International Foundation Mozarteum's Bibliotheca Mozartiana in Salzburg, which attempts to collect comprehensively on Mozart and his world. The first volume of the Mozart-Bibliographie is found in the 1975 edition of the Mozart-Jahrbuch and lists publications through 1969. The bibliography was kept up-to-date by four further volumes, which reported on five-year periods. The present volume covers only four years because the 1992 Mozart-Jahrbuch, in an effort to make available the tremendous number of publications that had appeared in 1991 (the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death), covered six years.

The entire enterprise lists a total of 18,695 titles, of which 6,398 appeared in the initial volume. The volume under review covers 3,945 titles of monographs and articles, omitting newspaper reviews and other "insignificant" publications. The entries are not annotated. For some strange reason the pagination of the monographs is not indicated. It would have been helpful if the titles of articles in less familiar languages had been annotated or at least translated.

Until now, the design of this reference work called for two separately numbered alphabets, one for titles that appeared during the reporting period, another for late entries. In the present volume the two alphabets have been retained, but now the entries are in a single numeric sequence. There are indexes by person, place and keywords, and a Köchel listing. [mr/jbr]

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Johann Joachim Quantz: thematisch-systematisches Werkverzeichnis: QV [Johann Joachim Quantz: Thematic-Classified Catalog: QV]. Horst Augsbach. Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 1997. xxiii, 333 p. ill. 27 cm. (Carus, 24.025) ISBN 3-923053-47-9: DM 148.00

J. J. Quantz (1697-1773) was the court composer to Frederick the Great. An extensive preface provides an excellent overview of the present status of Quantz manuscripts and is followed by a listing of holding libraries, a table of abbreviations, and a bibliography. The thematic listing of works is organized by instrumentation into groups QV (or "Quantz-Verzeichnis") 1 through 7. Within these categories Quantz's compositions are arranged by key. Works of questionable authorship and attributions are placed at the end of each major category as an appendix.

An entry in the QV consists of (1) the category number (e.g., QV 1) and in some cases a sub-category , e.g., QV 1: 1 or QV 3: 1.1. Alas, the editors were not consistent in numbering the works, as the numeral following the colon refers sometimes to a specific composition and at other times to a sub-category.

Further information under the entries includes (2) the title of the work and its key, (3) the incipits of the individual movements and the number of measures in them, (4) location of the manuscript sources, (5) imprints from the eighteenth century, (6) catalogs which contain the work, (7) annotations about the work, and (8) nineteenth- and twentieth-century editions.

The appendix to the QV contains (1) a biography of Quantz written by himself in Italian in 1762, (2) a list of works by Quantz found in a 1784 index from the New Palace in Potsdam, (3) a thematic catalog of works by Frederick the Great (in facsimile), (4) facsimiles showing the development of Quantz's musical notation, (5) a list of the major copyists (with examples in facsimile), (6) facsimiles of the title pages of 18th-century editions, (7) an index of names, and (8) addenda.

The Quantz-Verzeichnis should find a place in every library with a music collection. Unfortunately it was necessary to provide in each copy a list of corrigenda and addenda. [mr/jbr]

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Rock: der ultimative Führer zur Rockmusik: 1000 Künstler und Bands von den Anfängen bis heute; mehr als 3000 CD-Empfehlungen [Rock: The Ultimate Guide to Rock Music; 1000 Artists and Bands from the Beginnings to Today; More Than 3000 CD Recommendations]. Transl. from English: The Rough Guide to Rock. Ed. Jonathan Buckley. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler, 1998. 926 p. ill. 24 cm. (Rough guide) ISBN 3-476-01542-4: DM 58.00

Included here because the translation is augmented by articles on German rock bands, musicians, and topics (e.g., Die Ärzte, Die Fantastischen Vier, Helmut Zerlett, Austro-Pop, Krautrock), this is the first German version of the online Rough Guides (http://www.roughguides.com). Entries are written by fans rather than paid writers and include selective discographies. Coverage seems sometimes driven by the originality of the text rather than the importance of the musician or topic. Not quite to the standard of "ultimate" (subtitle notwithstanding), this guide is nevertheless a good value. [beh/sl]