The History of Music: Volume 2

A two-volume 1888 English translation of Emil Naumann's Illustrierte Musikgeschichte, with additional chapters on English music by Frederick Gore Ouseley.

Emil Naumann (Author), Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger (Translated by), F. A. Gore Ouseley (Edited by)

9781108061643, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 June 2013

666 pages, 101 b/w illus. 1 colour illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 0.96 kg

Scholar and composer Emil Naumann (1827–88) studied with Mendelssohn, and his compositions reflect the style of his teacher. He published several works on musical aesthetics and history, of which Illustrierte Musikgeschichte, written between 1880 and 1885, is his best known. It went through many editions and this English translation, first published in 1888, was prepared by the composer, pianist and writer Ferdinand Praeger (1815–91). To rectify the work's marked neglect of English music, chapters were added by its editor, the eminent Victorian musician Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley (1825–89), Professor of Music at Oxford. Lavishly illustrated and with musical examples throughout, this two-volume history was intended to 'aid in fostering ever-increasing interest in the most emotional and cherished of all the arts'. Volume 2 covers the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and includes an index.

Part IV. History of Music from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Present Time: 26. Johann Sebastian Bach
27. George Frederick Händel
28. The chevalier de Gluck
29. Joseph Haydn
30. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
31. On the state of music in England after the death of Purcell
32. Ludwig van Beethoven
33. Franz Schubert and Karl Maria von Weber
34. Ludwig Spohr and Meyerbeer
35. Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann
36. The grand opera of Paris and the French comic romantic opera
37. Cherubini, Spontini, and Rossini
38. Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner
39. The present
Index.

Subject Areas: Music reviews & criticism [AVC]