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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2014
      24 October 2013
      ISBN:
      9781107300590
      9781108065160
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107300590
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 358 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Music
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    Subjects:
    Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Music
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    A high-ranking official in the Imperial War Office in Vienna, Raphael Georg Kiesewetter (1773–1850) is better known for his musicological activities. An accomplished amateur musician, he studied with Albrechtsberger, hosted private concerts of early music, and was closely involved in the affairs of Vienna's Society of the Friends of Music. His important collection of scores is now in the Austrian National Library. He also wrote a number of books and articles, including a pioneering study of Arabic music which was the first to use original sources, owing to the assistance of orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. Originally published in German in 1834 and reissued here in its 1848 English translation, the present work is considered Kiesewetter's most significant and remains accessible to the general reader. Based on an evolutionary approach influenced by the Enlightenment, the book presents seventeen epochs which are named after their most characteristic composers.

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