A music critic for more than three decades, David Hurwitz holds MA degrees from Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities. Hurwitz is the author of more than a dozen books on composers such as Mozart, Mahler, Sibelius, Haydn, Dvorák, Brahms, Beethoven, Shostakovich, R. Strauss Bernstein, Handel, C.P.E. Bach, and Mendelssohn. His musicological articles have been published in noted scholarly journals as well.Бейне