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Piano and Song
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Title: Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances
Author: Friedrich Wieck
Translator: Mary P. Nichols
Release Date: September 5, 2005 [EBook #16658]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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PIANO AND SONG
_HOW TO TEACH, HOW TO LEARN,_
AND
HOW TO FORM A JUDGMENT OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCES.
Translated from the German
OF
FRIEDRICH WIECK.
BOSTON: LOCKWOOD, BROOKS, & COMPANY. 1875.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by NOYES, HOLMES, AND COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
_Cambridge:_ _Press of John Wilson and Son._
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
FRIEDRICH WIECK, the author of the work a translation of which is here offered to the public, was during his long life a distinguished teacher of music. He died in the autumn of 1873. He was the father and teacher of the celebrated pianist, Clara Wieck, now Fr. Dr. Clara Schumann, widow of the renowned composer Robert Schumann, who was also a pupil of