Here is a link to Allan Kozinn's superb obituary of the unsurpassable Stanley Sadie that appears in today's The New York Times:
Click here: The New York Times > Arts > Music > Stanley Sadie, 74, Writer and Scholar of Music History, Dies
It was my great privilege and my great pleasure to know this wonderful man. He was a meticulous scholar, a superb writer for audiences at any and every level, and an unsurpassable editor. Stanley was a gracious, thoughtful, and generous friend and colleague, and I know I am by no means alone in acknowledging a great debt to him and in expressing immense gratitude to him for all that he has done to forward the cause of musical, musicological, and music historical scholarship.
He will indeed be missed.
Teri Noel Towe
The Face Of Bach
"Those in charge are odd and ambivalent towards music, which means I have to live with almost non-stop vexation, envy, and persecution."
Johann Sebastian Bach, October 28, 1730