Russell Stinson is the Josephine Emily Brown Professor of Music at Lyon College. His many publications on the music of Bach include J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument: Essays on His Organ Works (OUP, 2012), The Reception of Bach's Organ Works from Mendelssohn to Brahms (OUP, 2006), J. S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales (OUP, 2001), and Bach: The Orgelbüchlein (OUP, 1999).

"Stinson is to be applauded for uncovering interesting source material that he uses as the basis for his arguments, for revealing new insights about the minds and emotions of four composers, and for sharing interesting details about Bach transmission in the nineteenth century." -- Erinn E. Knyt, University of Massachusetts Amherst, BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute

"For students of nineteenth-century performance practice this book will be intriguing for all the questions it leaves unanswered. In itself this marks the book as a significant contribution to the field. It will make readers rethink and quite possibly reevaluate the period ... . I recommend it most especially to anyone who wants to have a very, very long discussion about what we think we know for certain when it comes to Bach in the nineteenth century." -- Iain Quinn , Bach Notes

"Bach's Legacy is a well-researched volume and contains helpful contributions to the reception history of J. S. Bach's music in nineteenth-century Europe." -- Mark Peters, Eighteenth-Century Music