Alan Shockley (1970–2020) was Professor of Music at California State University, Long Beach. He studied composition and theory at the University of Georgia, Ohio State University, and Princeton University. He was a prolific composer whose works often called for unconventional combinations of instruments, voices, and electronics. His publications include The Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer’s Guide to Techniques and Resources (2018) and Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth Century Novel (2009).Will Carr is Deputy Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. He has edited The Ink Trade, a selection of Burgess’s essays, and the Irwell Edition of The Pianoplayers. Christine Lee Gengaro is a Professor of Music at Los Angeles City College. She has edited the Irwell Edition of This Man and Music.

'In this authoritative new critical edition, Mozart and the Wolf Gang involves other opera composers too, including Prokofiev, Rossini, Berlioz, and Wagner.'Opera Now magazine

• Editor's introductionThe novelendnotesAppendix 1 - textual variantsAppendix 2 - Burgess' introductions, reviews etc.