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Gluck and the Opera

Ernest Newman
Composer study / opera history · 1895 · English
Ernest Newman. Gluck and the Opera. Bertram Dobell, London, 1895.

Gluck and the Opera is represented here as a researched bibliographic dossier for a historically significant source in music study. The volume belongs to the literature surrounding composer study / opera history and is catalogued with normalized title and author variants so that it remains discoverable even when…

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The Great German Composers

George T. Ferris
Collected biographical sketches / popular music history · 1880 / later 1883 edition · English
George T. Ferris. The Great German Composers. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880 / later 1883 edition.

Ferris’s volume assembles compact biographies of major German and Austro-German composers for the late nineteenth-century general reader. Its sequence helped popularize a canonical narrative running from Bach and Handel through Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic generation and Wagner.

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