Studies of Great Composers
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Studies of Great Composers
- Author
- C. Hubert H. Parry
- Original publication
- 1887
- Publisher
- Routledge / later reprints
- Place
- London
- Year
- 1887
- Language
- English
- Type
- Composer studies / music history
SCOPE & CONTENT
Organized as a sequence from Palestrina through Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Wagner, this collection presents Parry’s canon of major composers and the historical logic connecting them. Its usefulness today is double: it offers concise interpretive portraits and, at the same time, documents the construction of a late nineteenth-century “great composer” tradition.
RESEARCH VALUE
For research use, this record is intended to preserve both bibliographic identity and historical context. Because the book belongs to an earlier phase of musicology or criticism, its factual observations can remain highly useful while broader aesthetic, racial, national or evolutionary assumptions should be checked against modern scholarship and current critical editions.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND SEARCH VALUE
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RESEARCH USE AND LIMITS
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- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields