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The Romantic era

consultant editors, Denis Matthews, Ludwig Finscher, and Robert Donington

(Heritage of music / edited by Michael Raeburn and Alan Kendall, v. 2)

Oxford University Press, 1989

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Includes index

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Description

This volume, the second of four on the history of western music, concentrates on the Romantic era.

Table of Contents

  • Ludwig van Beethoven - life and works, Alan Kendall and Basil Lam
  • interlude - harpsichord to pianoforte
  • Beethoven's symphonies, Antony Hopkins
  • Beethoven's string quartets, Denis Matthews
  • Franz Schubert - life and works, Otto Biba and Brian Newbould
  • interlude - Goethe and music
  • Schubert's songs, Philip Radcliffe
  • Romantic music, Carl Dahlhaus
  • Carl Maria von Weber, Ludwig Finscher
  • interlude - a revolution in wind instruments
  • Hector Berlioz, Julian Rushton
  • Frederick Chopin, Philip Radcliffe
  • interlude - the travelling virtuoso - Paganini
  • Felix Mendelssohn, Larry Todd
  • Robert Schumann, Bernard Keeffe
  • the operatic tradition, Robert Donington
  • interlude - the Romantic ballet
  • Gioacchino Rossini, Benedict Sarnaker
  • interlude - Mozart's operas in the nineteenth century
  • Bellini and Donizetti, Roger Parker and William Ashbrook
  • interlude - Scribe and the Paris Opera
  • Giuseppe Verdi, Roger Parker
  • Giacomo Puccini and Verismo, William Ashbrook. A-Z of composers, Virgil Pomfret et al. Credits and index.

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