Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By Leon Plantinga

Book Overview

Beginning with Beethoven's middle years, the author weaves a narrative in which major composers such as Schubert, Rossini, Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and Musorgsky are discussed in historical context. Professor Plantinga also places into clear focus slightly lesser figures such as Mendelssohn, Smetana, Dvorak, and others. In a final section that embraces Brahms, Mahler, Bruckner, Strauss, and Wolf, Plantinga rounds out this fascinating survey of the diverging movements and styles that constitute the Romantic century's legacy to the musical arts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393951960
• ISBN13: 9780393951967
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Required for class

I had to get this for my Graduate course. It is very informative and specific.

An excellent textbook

This was the book chosen by my professor for an undergraduate music history course, and I can safely say that it is an excellent textbook. Plantinga's writing style is wonderfully clear and to the point, and well... respected musicologists become respected for a reason. Plantinga is one of the foremost authorities on 19th century music, and his knowledge and scholarship are extremely evident throughout the book. I would advise all music professors teaching 19th century music history courses to consider this textbook before all others.