The History of Music in Twelve Lectures : Translated from the German (Classic Reprint) by Wilhelm Langhans
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The plan of these Lectures as also the grouping of the material are, notwithstanding considerable enlargement of the several sections, the same here as in the first edition and in the lectures, forming the basis of the book, delivered by me in 1877 and 1878 at Berlin. The chief aim that I then had in view was to awaken in larger circles an interest for music-history, and that by the examination not only of certain epochs lying closer to our intelligence but of its entire course of development For proximately attaining this end in a limited time I had to content myself, as regards the representative characters of those epochs, with emphasizing in a general way their art-historical significance and referring to the excellent biographers that each of them has found in modern times: Bach in Philepp Spitta, Handel in Friedrich Chrysander, Gluck in Adolph Bernhard Marx, Haydn in Carl Ferdinand Pohl, Mozart in Otto Jahn, Bethoven in Alexander W. Thayer. With reference to more remote epochs I recommend to the reader, provided I have at all succeeded in instigating him through my scanty recital to a more exhaustive study, the valuable works of a Foukel, an Am- Bros and a Fetis; moreover, with special reference to the musie of antiquity, the no less meritorious works of Friedrich Bellermann, Westphal, Gevaert, Weitzmann; to that of the Middle Age, of Heinrich Bellermann, and of modern times, of Franz Brendel But if any should deem the leap too great from my small monograph to those authors, treating their subject as they do with extreme profuseness.
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