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NANCY NOVEMBER SIX SEXTETS FOR FLUTE, OBOE, VIOLIN, TWO VIOLAS, AND CELLO Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era 87 Middleton : A-R Editions , 2012 pp. xi + 317, isbn 978 0 89579 730 8 Reviews: Editions Most current studies and performances of late classical Viennese chamber music continue to be dominated by the usual names that remain (rightly) the stalwarts of the period: Within the A-R Editions series Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, Nancy November has made a cleanly presented, useful and very welcome contribution that goes another step towards filling the gaps in the publication of Wranitzky's music and also deepens our understanding of the variety of chamber music composed for mixed ensembles in Vienna in the final years of the eighteenth century. Not only did some of those works garner much-deserved musical attention, but some also raised eyebrows for political reasons, including his Symphony in C major (Op. 2, 1790) with the title A Magyar Nemzet Öröme (Joy of the Hungarian Nation) and his 1797 Grande sinfonie caractéristique pour la paix avec la République françoise (Op. 31), the premiere of which was forbidden by imperial decree because of the politically provocative subject matter.