Purity in Music (Classic Reprint)

Robert Schumann said Thibaut sbook was a fine work on the Tone-art, and recommends his young friends to read it frequently ;and no apology is therefore needed for giving English readers a cheap edition of a book which won the encomiums of that eminent composer and critic. Only one word is necessary as to the translation, which I have tried to put into language which will bring before English readers the ideas aG erman would receive on reading the original. The heading of Chapter VII., for instance, is Ueber Vielseitigkeit, or, On Manysidedness ;but the latter is an awkward word, and I think the heading I have adopted gives an equivalent idea. Thibaut was a jurist first, and a musician afterwards, but his work on Purity in Music is that of a genuine lover of the best things in art.
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