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Strong on Music|Vera Brodsky Lawrence

Strong on Music : The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 1: Resonances, 1836-1849

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In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century.
Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin. On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."--Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."--Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly

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  • ISBN-13: 9780226470092
  • ISBN-10: 0226470091
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publish Date: April 1995
  • Dimensions: 9.34 x 6.78 x 1.42 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.51 pounds
  • Page Count: 742

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