Digital Resources

Eduard Hanslick

• On the Beautiful in Music (orig. 1854; English edition of 1891)

Franz Liszt

• Franz Liszt at the piano (Lithograph, 1846)

• First Edition of Années de pèlerinage (1855. Part I)

• Video of Liszt, "Au bord d'une source," played by the great Vladimir Horowitz:

Felix Mendelssohn

• Stunning autograph manuscript of Schiflied, Op. 70, overlaid with a watercolor by the composer. 

Further Reading

Links to WorldCat entries except where specified.

• Berlioz, Hector. Fantastic Symphony: An Authorative Score. Edward T. Cone, ed., Norton Critical Score. New York: Norton, 1971.  

• Chopin, Frédéric. Chopin’s Letters, collected by Henryk Opieński, trans. E. L. Voynich, trans. New York: Dover, 1988.  

• Chopin, Frédéric. Preludes, Opus 28, Thomas Higgins, ed. New York: Norton, 1973.  

• Dahlhaus, Carl. The Idea of Absolute Music, Roger Lustig, trans. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. 

• Gibbs, Christopher H. and Dana Gooley, eds. Franz Liszt and His World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 

• Goldberg, Halina, ed. The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.  

• Hanslick, Eduard. The Beautiful in Music, Gustav Cohen, trans. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1957.  

• Kallberg, Jeffrey. Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre. Cambridge MA: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

• Kok, Roe-Min and Laura Tunbridge, eds. Rethinking Schumann. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.  

• Newcomb, Anthony. “Once More ‘Between Absolute and Program Music’: Schumann’s Second Symphony.” 19th Century Music 7 (1984), 233–50. [link to JSTOR]

• Parakilas, James. Ballads without Words: Chopin and the Tradition of the Instrumental Ballade. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1992. 

• Perrey, Beate. Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Early Romantic Poetics: Fragmentation of Desire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 

• Ritchey, Marianna, “Echoes of the Guillotine: Berlioz and the French Fantastic,” 19th-Century Music 34 (2010), 168–85. [link to JSTOR]

• Samson, Jim. Chopin. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 

• Samson, Jim. Chopin: The Four Ballades. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.  

• Todd, R. Larry, ed. Nineteenth-Century Piano Music, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2004.  

• Will, Richard. The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.