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From Mendelssohn to Wagner Being the Memoirs of J. W. Davies on Forty Years Music Critic of "The Times
by Davison, James William (Davison, Henry -- compiler)
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- good
- Hardcover
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- Good/No Dust Jacket
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William Reeves, London, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. XX, 540 pages, last page blank, includes frontispiece with a fox to tissue guard, and 43 other illustrations (mostly full page) of persons mentioned, with, nine facsimile letters including several affixed with linen to enable them to fold out. Includes also a list of articles, and index. Bound in the original blue cloth of the publisher, with gilt titling to the spine and top edge of text block gilded. The front and blower edges of the text block untrimmed, and shows signs of Browning. Foxing/offset tanning to both end pages, scattered foxing throughout the book, rear hinged where being exposed, flecking of both the front and rear panels, with rubbing of the corners and head and tail of the spine. "James William Davison was a critic of music and musicians who worked from about the year 1835 until within a week or two of his death in 1885. For over 30 years of that half-century he was an active member of the staff of the "Times" and chiefly in that capacity exercised considerable influence over the course of musical events in England. The period 1835-85, so far as regards secular music in England, is marked, principally, by three movements. Taking them in the order in which they occurred, there was, first, the effort at formation of a native school -- and this at a time when the genius of Mendelssohn was the rising son of modern music. Soon afterwards may be observed the beginning of that music education of the people which was, gradually, to lead to what may be called the democratisation of good concerts." -- from the preface page V Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Letters; Music; Journalism; 19th Century. Inventory No: 0220128. .
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- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0220128
- Title
- From Mendelssohn to Wagner Being the Memoirs of J. W. Davies on Forty Years Music Critic of "The Times
- Author
- Davison, James William (Davison, Henry -- compiler)
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Reeves
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- BZDB2 music, correspondence, Europe, Victorian History; Letters; Music; Journalism; 19th Century. Various Unbranded Davison, James William (Davison, Henry -- compiler) From Mendelssohn to Wagner Being the Memoirs of J. W. Davies on Forty Years Music Cri
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