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The Great German Composers
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Title: The Great German Composers
Author: George T. Ferris
Release Date: January 4, 2006 [EBook #17461]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Produced by David Widger
THE GREAT GERMAN COMPOSERS
By George T. Ferris
Copyright 1878, by D. Appleton and Company
NOTE.
The sketches of composers contained in this volume may seem arbitrary in the space allotted to them. The special attention given to certain names has been prompted as much by their association with great art-epochs as by the consideration of their absolute rank as composers.
The introduction of Chopin, born a Pole, and for a large part of his life a resident of France, among the German composers, may require an explanatory word. Chopin's whole early training was in the German school, and he may be looked on as one of the founders of the latest school of pianoforte composition, whose highest development is in contemporary Germany. He represents German music by his affinities and his influences in art, and bears too close a relation to important changes in musical form to be omitted from this series.
The authorities to which the author is most indebted for