"It provides stimulation and high quality. It takes the reader to the heart of the European idea of composition, by displaying its variousness. The practising musician, too, will find in it many analyses that he can and should use as paradigms for any relevant instruction. And inasmuch as these analyses are striving to cast light on the essence of their topics, they fulfil a central demand of the work of Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, to whom they are dedicated." German Studies . (Franz Steiner 1984)