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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."and#8212;Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review
On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."and#8212;Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly
Synopsis
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"
Table of Contents
Rondo
1. GTS: 1836-1839
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2. GTS: 1840
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3. GTS: 1841
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4. GTS: 1842
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5. GTS: 1843
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6. GTS: 1844
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7. GTS: 1845
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8. GTS: 1846
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9. GTS: 1847
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10. GTS: 1848
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11. GTS: 1849
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Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Bibliography
Index