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Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 1

Frederick Niecks
Biography / works study · English
Frederick Niecks. Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 1.

Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 1 by Frederick Niecks is preserved here as a curated bibliographic dossier so that the work can be found reliably by title, author and normalized variants. Its principal value is historical and documentary: it provides a period perspective on frederick…

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Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 2

Frederick Niecks
Biography / works study · English
Frederick Niecks. Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 2.

Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 2 by Frederick Niecks is preserved here as a curated bibliographic dossier so that the work can be found reliably by title, author and normalized variants. Its principal value is historical and documentary: it provides a period perspective on frederick…

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Programme Music in the Last Four Centuries

Frederick Niecks
History and criticism / programme music · 1907 · English
Frederick Niecks. Programme Music in the Last Four Centuries: A Contribution to the History of Musical Expression. London / New York: Novello and Company, Limited / The H. W. Gray Co., 1907.

Niecks surveys the long history of descriptive and programmatic music from early examples to Beethoven, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Strauss and Russian repertory. The book is substantial both historically and conceptually: it discusses imitation, poetic titles, narrative suggestion, symphonic poems and the debate between “absolute” and programme music, preserving…

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Musical Education and Culture

Frederick Niecks
Music education / aesthetics · 1892 · English
Frederick Niecks. Musical Education and Culture. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1892.

Niecks addresses the aims of musical training, the relation between technique and general culture, the formation of taste and the responsibilities of teachers and institutions. The book is valuable for the history of conservatoire and amateur education because it records expectations about musicianship at the end of the…

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A Concise Dictionary of Musical Terms

Frederick Niecks
Music terminology / reference · 1884 · English
Frederick Niecks. A Concise Dictionary of Musical Terms. London: Augener & Co., 1884.

Published in London in 1884, this volume belongs to the historical literature through which musicians, critics and teachers organized knowledge about its subject. Its value in Classical Archive is not only bibliographic: the dossier records the edition identity, principal responsibility, publication context and the work's likely research role,…

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