Richard Lightbody is to be commended for his article on Alan Tyson [TAP 33/1]. Tyson is little known, but his name appears on every title page of the twenty-four volumes of Freud's Standard Edition as a collaborator in the translation with the Stracheys and Anna Freud.

I knew Alan Tyson. When he was a visiting lecturer in music in 1977–78 at the University of California in Berkeley, he lectured on Beethoven in my class “Applications of Psychoanalysis.” I was distressed to read of his mental deterioration.

One of Tyson's important contributions was not mentioned by Lightbody. Tyson and Joseph Kerman, professor of music at the University of California, wrote the “Beethoven” entry in the encyclopedic Now Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Grove has been the standard compendium of music for over a century. Tyson and Kerman's “Beethoven” was published separately in book form as The New Grove Beethoven in 1983 by Norton.

Joseph E. Lifschutz

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