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Schonberg was one of the eminent music critics of his day. I gobbled up this book with a gusto. From amusing anecdotes about the pianist Gottschalk from New Orleans, to Beethoven's infamous extemporization battle against the musical charlatan Steibelt, Schonberg captures it all with incisive wit and a perspicaciousness that seems to have been largely forgotten in contemporary writing.