Mrs Schumann’s Profession
Denis Arnold, 22 May 1986
The Cambridge Music Guide
edited by Stanley Sadie and Alison Latham.
Cambridge, 544 pp., £15, October 1985,0 521 25946 0 Show More
edited by Stanley Sadie and Alison Latham.
Cambridge, 544 pp., £15, October 1985,
The Music Profession in Britain since the 18th Century: A Social History
by Cyril Ehrlich.
Oxford, 269 pp., £22.50, January 1986,0 19 822665 9 Show More
by Cyril Ehrlich.
Oxford, 269 pp., £22.50, January 1986,
Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman
by Nancy Reich.
Gollancz, 346 pp., £15.95, October 1985,0 575 03755 5 Show More
by Nancy Reich.
Gollancz, 346 pp., £15.95, October 1985,
Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Life and Times of Mozart’s Librettist
by Sheila Hodges.
Granada, 274 pp., £12.95, October 1985,0 246 12001 0 Show More
by Sheila Hodges.
Granada, 274 pp., £12.95, October 1985,
“... though, for a musicologist, it is a trifle shaming that it comes from an economic historian. Cyril Ehrlich’s previous essay in music history, a history of piano manufacture, provided a background to 19th-century music-making, although it did not perhaps investigate sufficiently the society (or rather, societies) which allowed the piano to be the ... ”
