Hakutulokset: Sarja Cambridge Library Collection: Music
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The Mendelssohn Family (1729-1847) 2 Volume Set
Sebastian Hensel (1830-98), nephew of the composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47), originally intended this work to be 'not only of the family but for …
Life and Letters of Berlioz
Hector Berlioz (1803-60189) was one of the most original and colourful composers of his generation, whose music in many ways was ahead of its time. He was also a highly respected …
The Life of Richard Wagner 4 Volume Paperback Set
Ernest Newman's four-volume Life of Wagner, originally published between 1933 and 1947, remains a classic work of biography. The culmination of forty years' research on the …
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio
This three-volume biography, first published in 1796, recounts the colourful life of the popular Italian poet and librettist Pietro Trapassi (1698-1782), better known by his …
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio 3 Volume Paperback Set
This three-volume biography, first published in 1796, recounts the colourful life of the popular Italian poet and librettist Pietro Trapassi (1698-1782), better known by his …
Half a Century of Music in England, 1837-1887
This collection of essays by the music critic Francis Hueffer (1843-1889) is a lively, contemporary account of musical life in Victorian England. First published in 1889, it …
Alfred Day's Treatise on Harmony
Alfred Day (1810-49) first published this controversial work in 1845 to substantial negative criticism. He was encouraged in his enterprise by the composer George Alexander …
A Treatise on the Science of Music
First published by the house of Novello in 1853, and later reprinted, this was one of the earliest treatises to take a scientific as well as a practical approach to the discussion …
Life of Mozart: Volume 3
In terms of musical composition, all but the first five of his thirty-five years were astoundingly productive for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). A stream of glorious …
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-94) was a leading scientist who made important contributions to physiology, psychology, physics, philosophy and early neuroscience. Following his …