Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) books

Brahms's Violin Sonatas explores key passages of the composer's sonata scores and reveals, in clear and accessible...  Read More >>

This study unpacks the history of Verdi's composition from its creation, performance, and publication in the 1860s...  Read More >>

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In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, contributors consider the fascinating...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sources surrounding Kinkel, this book explores the extent to which Kinkel's Lieder...  Read More >>

’An absolutely masterly work’ Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international...  Read More >>

Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Based on an...  Read More >>

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) achieved notable success in a diversity of activities that centred mainly on the piano....  Read More >>

Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with...  Read More >>

Chopin's Twenty-Four Preludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz...  Read More >>

It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase ’dead time’ to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and...  Read More >>

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Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two decades, Rethinking Mendelssohn critically...  Read More >>

This book places Liszt in historical and cultural focus and examines his principal contributions to musical literature....  Read More >>

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The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature. In notable...  Read More >>

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The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950aims to raise the status of the genre generally, and in Britain specifically,...  Read More >>

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First published in 1994. The subjects discussed in this title reflect the religious, ethnic, and social plurality...  Read More >>

First published in 1994. This study sets out to investigate English opera from 1834 to 1864. The author attempts...  Read More >>

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This book is essential reading for scholars and students who want to understand how songs functioned, were consumed...  Read More >>