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R. J. Stove is an organist who has publicly performed several of Cesar Franck's pieces. He is also the author of articles on a variety of musical topics, which have seen publication in Modern Age, The University Bookman, The New Criterion, Organ Australia, Britain's Musical Times, and other periodicals. His books include A Student's Guide to Music History (2007), The Unsleeping Eye (2003), and Prince of Music (1990).
R. J. Stove's intensively researched biography of Belgian French composer Cesar Franck has striking merits. Stove writes exquisitely, in periodic sentences, and manages to make detailed discussions of musicology an aesthetic experience for experts and neophytes alike. The American Conservative What makes Stove's biography especially interesting is not just the author's own musical expertise, which enables him to go way beyond a standard biographer in analysing Franck's work, but the way in which he weaves in the historical background. The Spectator (Australia) Stove notes a resuscitation of interest in Franck starting in 1990, the 100th anniversary of the composer's death, with a flurry on concert performances and new recordings of long neglected works. Never before has his music been so readily available in commercial recordings. American Record Guide
