The first-ever full-length biography in English of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of the opera H?nsel und Gretel, examining the rest of his substantial output in a historical framework which sets him in the rich musical life of Wilhelmine Germany. Engelbert Humperdinck's opera H?nsel und Gretel is one of the best-known in the repertoire, its melodies as familiar as folk-tunes - and yet no full-length biography of Humperdinck (1854-1921) has...