Heritage of Music: Volume III
Subtitle: The Nineteenth-Century Legacy (Heritage of Music)
Contributors: Michael Raeburn (Editor); Alan Kendall (Editor); Martin Cooper (Editor); Heinz Becker (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 2, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780195053722
Subjects: Western music: periods & styles; c 1800 to c 1900; Music Of The 19th Century; Music; Music/Songbooks; History & Criticism - General
First sentence: At the turning point of the nineteenth century, in 1850, Germany was unquestionably the leading musical country of Europe, Italy still maintaining its operatic primacy but otherwise negligible.