Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds Volume 14 - Hardcoverby Peter Franklin (Author) Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late romantic period Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally self indulgent? Peter Franklin takes a close and even handed look at how and why late romantic symphonies and operas steered a