The Life and Works of Robert SchumannG. Bell, 1900 - 276 pages |
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... become known , in connection with the other works belonging to the earlier period of his development ; we shall , therefore , continue the sketch of our master's life up to the point where he gave up a course foreign to his nature and ...
... become known , in connection with the other works belonging to the earlier period of his development ; we shall , therefore , continue the sketch of our master's life up to the point where he gave up a course foreign to his nature and ...
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... become world - renowned . The first concert was given November 25 , 1781 , under the direction of Hiller . Originally at twenty - four , and afterwards at twenty annual concerts , to which were added two benefit concerts and eight ...
... become world - renowned . The first concert was given November 25 , 1781 , under the direction of Hiller . Originally at twenty - four , and afterwards at twenty annual concerts , to which were added two benefit concerts and eight ...
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... becoming a public performer had now become a certainty . He could , and must , henceforth follow a higher , nobler aim with all the greater vigour . The gradually growing security and de- termination with which he followed it , not only ...
... becoming a public performer had now become a certainty . He could , and must , henceforth follow a higher , nobler aim with all the greater vigour . The gradually growing security and de- termination with which he followed it , not only ...
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... become more regular and conformable to law in this direction also . Esthetic disquisitions upon the nature and significance of old and new masters went hand in hand with the tech- nical analysis of their compositions . Through this work ...
... become more regular and conformable to law in this direction also . Esthetic disquisitions upon the nature and significance of old and new masters went hand in hand with the tech- nical analysis of their compositions . Through this work ...
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... becomes fairly monstrous . A few years later he would have made a very different thing of this wealth of harmonies . The finale is far freer and more intelligible in form , and here we can already recognize the hand which was afterwards ...
... becomes fairly monstrous . A few years later he would have made a very different thing of this wealth of harmonies . The finale is far freer and more intelligible in form , and here we can already recognize the hand which was afterwards ...
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