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About: Popular Music History Later Composers And Performers (
Originally Published Early 1900's ) BEFORE summing up the
remaining names of musical history, a brief retrospect over the
present century may be in place. The first quarter of the
nineteenth century was distinguished by two composers of the
first order Beethoven and Schubert; and by a large number of
highly gifted lesser artists, some of whom, such as Spohr and
Weber, bid fair to remain long enrolled in the list of
immortals. The second quarter of the century was made memorable
by the rise and blossoming into full glory of the romantic
school, all the works of this school (exce