THE ROMANTIC
COMPOSERS
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The ROMANTIC
COMPOSERS
BY
DANIEL GREGORY MASON
AUTHOR OF "FROM GRIEG TO BRAHMS,"
"BEETHOVEN AND HIS FORERUNNERS," ETC.
"Consciously or unconsciously a new school is being
founded on the basis of the Beethoven-Schubert romanticism,
a school which we may venture to expect will mark
a special epoch in the history of art."
SCHUMANN
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LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1940
COPYRIGHT, 1906,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
COPYRIGHT, 1934,
BY DANIEL G. MASON.
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PREFACE
This book completes the seriesof studies of composers and oftheir music, from Palestrina tothe present day, which was begunwith "From Grieg to Brahms"(1902), and continued in "Beethoven and hisForerunners" (1904). It will be noted thatthese three volumes should be read in an orderdifferent from that of their publication. Firstshould come "Beethoven and his Forerunners,"in which are made a general survey of theperiods of musical history and the principles ofmusical style, and special studies of Palestrina,Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; then"The Romantic Composers," in which the storyis taken up at the death of Beethoven and carriedthrough the period of romanticism, withessays on Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn,[Pg vi]Chopin, Berlioz, and Liszt; and finally "FromGrieg to Brahms," comprising studies of thechief moder