From Library Journal
In clear and graceful prose, the eminent professor of music at the Technische Universitat Berlin has gathered together the tendencies leading to 19th-century music and further articulated what we receive today as part and parcel of this music, placing it within its historical, social, literary, and geographic context. With penetrating examination, he has illumined and disentangled all the connections that make 19th-century music what it is, enlivening his points by the many pictorial and musical illustrations. An important book for its scholarship, sweep, and readability. Essential for music libraries.
- Philippa Kiraly, Cleveland
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"Dahlhaus is frequently illuminating about major figures who have found less fame with posterity. . . . The learning is immense." -- John Drummond, Times Literary Supplement
"The most significant history we have of this crucial period in the history of music. . . . Dahlhaus's stimulating and indeed brilliant insights are certainly worth the attention of listeners, musicians, and scholars." -- Philip Gossett, The New York Review of Books
"This is a remarkable book. . . . Dahlhaus succeeded in writing a general history that is coherent, fresh, and perceptive. . . . For ideas about nineteenth-century music, especially opera, ideas which spill over into our own century, this is a history without a peer." -- George Martin, Opera Quarterly
Paperback: 427 pages Publisher: University of California Press (August 12, 1991)
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