Van Boer publishes book of letters from Joseph Martin Kraus

Bertil van Boer, a professor in the Music Department at Western Washington University, has had his book "The Musical Life of Joseph Martin Kraus: Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Swedish Composer" published by Indiana University Press. The book contains the collected letters of Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792), translated from the Swedish and German, along with extensive commentary and appendices featuring documents, a travel diary and letters from family and friends.