Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Norton Introduction to Music History)

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In this volume of the Norton Introduction to Music History series Leon Plantinga explores the origins of Romanticism leading the reader through the maze of genres and genuses that proliferated during the turbulent nineteenth century. Beginning with Beethovens middle years the author weaves a narrative in which major composers such as Schubert Rossini Liszt Chopin Berlioz Schumann Wagner Verdi Tchaikovsky and Musorgsky are discussed in historical context. Professor Plantinga also places into clear focus slightly lesser figures such as Mendelssohn Smetana Dvorak and others. In a final section that embraces Brahms Mahler Bruckner Strauss and Wolf Plantinga rounds out this fascinating survey of the diverging movements and styles that constitute the Romantic centurys legacy to the musical arts.