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... artist had about style in Bach and Mozart . Nine- teenth - century performance practice was not the an anarchy today's musicians seem to think it was . Recordings made by the better artists born in the nineteenth century reveal an ...
... artist had about style in Bach and Mozart . Nine- teenth - century performance practice was not the an anarchy today's musicians seem to think it was . Recordings made by the better artists born in the nineteenth century reveal an ...
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... artist of comparable stature . She repre- sented exactly the kind of singer that the German composer and theorist ... artists as harlots to virgins . . . . They live on artistic mis- conduct . " 3 A Digression on Travel , the Industrial ...
... artist of comparable stature . She repre- sented exactly the kind of singer that the German composer and theorist ... artists as harlots to virgins . . . . They live on artistic mis- conduct . " 3 A Digression on Travel , the Industrial ...
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... artist , and Europe resounded with stories about the way he handled obnoxious nobles . He lifted his hands from the ... artist . " Hanslick's summation was that Liszt “ is not only a man of genius and a great artist , but he is one of ...
... artist , and Europe resounded with stories about the way he handled obnoxious nobles . He lifted his hands from the ... artist . " Hanslick's summation was that Liszt “ is not only a man of genius and a great artist , but he is one of ...
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Angelica Catalani | 19 |
A Digression on Travel the Industrial Revolution | 31 |
Giuditta Pasta Maria Malibran Henrietta Sontag | 49 |
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