"A literary romp - not just for the musically informed - this work is a delight. Like so many a roman a clef, the more one knows about music and musical research, the more one will enjoy The Mozart Forgeries. I couldn't put the darn book down . . ." Read Full Review . . . Joseph M. Boonin, Sr. Librarian (retired) Former Head of the Recorded Sound and Moving Image Circulating Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Former music publisher-distributor and one-time representative of the publishers of 'The New Mozart Edition'
"(Forger and Librarian's) turpitude lies very deep, and our few hints at explanations -- even the lust for money -- always leave one asking for more. . . ." Read Full Review . . . D. W. Krummel University of Illinois, Urbana Book Reviews, Notes, The Journal of the Music Library Association, March. 2005
"Mozart's music, forged manuscripts, and a murder! Could any music aficionado who enjoys a unique, fascinating, and well-told tale ask for more?" . . . Conductor George Cleve, Music Director San Francisco�s Midsummer Mozart Music Festival
"A spectacular act of forgery!" Read Full Review . . . Stanley Sadie, Editor The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
"The Mozart Forgeries is so good it must be illegal. Called, �A Caper Novel for the Serious Mozart Aficionado,� if you are one, that�s frosting on the cake, though you don�t have to know K�chel numbers and key signatures to thoroughly enjoy this erudite and cleverly plotted tale of forgers at work. Don�t peek at the ending and get it before the Justice Department realizes it should be banned." . . . Bruce Cooper Clarke, Mozart specialist, Vienna, Austria
"Leeson ... exercises his imagination on how a convincing forgery of the lost autographs of two of Mozart's major works might be produced and sold. Much of the interest in the book was, for me, the detail of how paper is made, how a forger might approach the task, and how a plausible provenance could be created. These seem highly convincing (and I haven't previously seen such a clear account of how watermarks work)." . . . Early Music Review published by King's Music, Redcroft, Banks End, Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambs, England issue 103, October 2004
"The subtitle of The Mozart Forgeries is A Caper Novel for the Serious Mozart Aficionado, and that is an accurate description, though the book is a good deal more than that" Read Full Review . . . Al Past, Author of The Distant Cousin Series