This volume of essays celebrates Hungarian musicologist Laszlo Somfai (b. 1934), head of the Budapest Bartok Archives for more than three decades, past president of the International Musicological Society, and a leading authority on the music of Joseph Haydn and Bela Bartok. His complex approach to source material involves evaluating biographical data while examining compositional sketches, notation, and performance practice, leading him to an "authentic" understanding of music that reaches beyond the discussion of musical sources. This honorary volume is devoted to the topics and approaches...