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Excerpt from Music and Musicians: Essays and Criticisms
A; S the favourable reception accorded to the first selection from my complete transla tion of Schumann's works has justified the production of a second series, I have included in this collection essays and articles chie?y critical and educational in their tone and tendency, arranging them according to a plan founded on that of the forms of musical composition. Beginning with reviews of operas, oratorios, symphonies, and over tures (the first, a review of an opera by Hartmann, grandson of the composer of the Danish national hymn, King Christian, and father-in-law of the famous composer, Niels Grade), I conduct Schumann's readers through the Lied, and the various forms of chamber music, to the Sonata; and thence down the lesser forms of pianoforte composition, ending with his criticisms on miscellaneous works for that instru ment. My readers will not fail to observe that in some of these, Schumann has embalmed the names of comparatively obscure men, while in some cases he has projected the light of his great intellect on talent not wholly worthy of that honour; but those familiar with musical history will also remark that Schumann's Opinion of the younger composers of his.
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