Excerpt from Handbook of Musical Biography: Short Notices of the Various Schools of Composers, for the Use of General Readers and Schools
Martini's Storia della Musica Marpurg's Ge schichte der Musik Paul Frank's Tonkunstler Lexikon; Grove's Dictionary of Music; and the writings of Kiesewetter, Nische, J ahn, Weber, and Julius Schubert. To increase the utility of the work, a vocabulary of musical terms is added by way of Appendix.
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