Mrs Schumann’s Profession
Denis Arnold, 22 May 1986
The Cambridge Music Guide
edited by Stanley Sadie and Alison Latham.
Cambridge, 544 pp., £15, October 1985,0 521 25946 0 Show More
edited by Stanley Sadie and Alison Latham.
Cambridge, 544 pp., £15, October 1985,
The Music Profession in Britain since the 18th Century: A Social History
by Cyril Ehrlich.
Oxford, 269 pp., £22.50, January 1986,0 19 822665 9 Show More
by Cyril Ehrlich.
Oxford, 269 pp., £22.50, January 1986,
Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman
by Nancy Reich.
Gollancz, 346 pp., £15.95, October 1985,0 575 03755 5 Show More
by Nancy Reich.
Gollancz, 346 pp., £15.95, October 1985,
Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Life and Times of Mozart’s Librettist
by Sheila Hodges.
Granada, 274 pp., £12.95, October 1985,0 246 12001 0 Show More
by Sheila Hodges.
Granada, 274 pp., £12.95, October 1985,
“... English musicology has always embraced the Big Bang theory, which is to say that musical history is the story of great composers. Tovey’s remark that there are Great Composers and there are Interesting Historical Figures sums it up quite well. The German school has for the most part believed in principles and (since its discipline was born in the times of Darwin) the development of the species – whether symphony, harmonic idiom or orchestration ... ”
