The New Oxford History of Music: Volume IX: Romanticism (1830-1890)

By Gerald Abraham

Book Overview

Romanticism--a concept more easily recognized than defined--dominated the artistic landscape of music from 1830-1890. Like the other volumes in the New Oxford History of Music series, this final volume to be published provides a detailed, scholarly critical survey of the music and composers of
its period. Divided among different forms of music, the chapters, written by eminent scholars under the editorship of one of the most respected experts on nineteenth-century music, detail the work of Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Berlioz, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Gounod, Bizet,
Borodin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dvorak, Smetana, Faur?, Wolf, Puccini, Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss, C?sar Franck, and Debussy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0193163098
• ISBN13: 9780193163096
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 972 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 6.4" x 10.0"