Studies in Modern Music: First Series
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- Title
- Studies in Modern Music: First Series
- Author
- W. H. Hadow
- Subtitle
- Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Year
- 1892
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Language
- English
- Type
- Critical essays / composer studies
SCOPE & CONTENT
Hadow’s first series links Berlioz, Schumann and Wagner to the Romantic movement and to changing ideas of musical expression. Rather than functioning as simple biographies, the essays combine historical narrative, criticism and aesthetic argument, making the book a useful witness to English views of continental Romanticism at the end of the nineteenth century.
RESEARCH VALUE
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