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This Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music provides detailed and authoritative articles for the most important composers, concepts, genres, music educators, performers, theorists, writings, and works of cultivated music in Europe and the Americas during the period 1789-1914. The roster of biographical entries includes not only canonical composers such as Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Faur, Grieg, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky, Rossini, Schubert, Robert Schumann, Sibelius, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Wagner, and Wolf, but also less-well-known distinguished contemporaries of those composers (among them George Whitefield Chadwick, Ccile Chaminade, Ernesto Elorduy, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Fanny Hensel, C. H. Parry, and Clara Schumann, to name but a few). Significant literary and cultural topics such as Goethes Faust and Wagners theoretical writings of the 1850s, as well as entries on other cultural luminaries who significantly influenced musics Romanticisms among them J. S. Bach, Goethe, Haydn, Handel, Heine, Mozart, Schiller, and Shakespeare are also included. Entries on important institutions (conservatory, orphon, Mnnerchor), concepts (biographical fallacy, copyright, exoticism, feminism, nationalism, performance practice), and political caesurae and movements (First and Second French Empire, First, Second, and Third French Republic, Franco-Prussian War, Revolutions of 1848, Risorgimento) round out the dictionary section.
Like other volumes in this series, this books more than 500 entries are preceded by an introductory essay that explains the essential concepts necessary for understanding and exploring further the vast and complex musical landscape of Romanticism, plus a detailed Chronology. Concluding the volume is an extensive bibliography that lists the most important source-critical series of editions of Romantic music, important general writings on the period and its music, and composer-by-composer bibliographies.

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Historical Dictionary of
Romantic Music


John Michael Cooper

with Randy Kinnett

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The Scarecrow Press, Inc.

Lanham Toronto Plymouth, UK

2013

Published by Scarecrow Press, Inc.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield

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http://www.scarecrowpress.com


10 Thornbury Road, Plymouth PL6 7PP, United Kingdom


Copyright 2013 by John Michael Cooper


All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.


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Cooper, John Michael.

Historical dictionary of romantic music / John Michael Cooper with Randy Kinnett.

pages cm. (Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8108-7230-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8108-7484-8 (ebook)

1. Music19th centuryDictionaries. I. Kinnett, Randy, 1979. II. Title.

ML100.C77 2013

780.9'03403dc23

2013015481


Picture 3 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.


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