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How to Listen to Music

by Henry Krehbiel

This book is "not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art". It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instruments, venues - and when to believe the critics.

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English

Original Language

English

Published In

1895

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Henry Krehbiel

United States

Henry Edward Krehbiel was an American music critic and musicologist who was the chief music critic of The New York Tribune for more than forty years. Along with his contemporaries Richard Aldrich, Hen...

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