Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 1: Resonances, 1836-1849

By Vera Brodsky Lawrence

In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century.
Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin.

On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."--Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review

On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."--Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226470091
• ISBN13: 9780226470092
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 742 Pages
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.8" x 9.3"