This Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music provides detailed and authoritative articles for the most important composers concepts genres music educators performers theorists writings and works of cultivated music in Europe and the Americas during the period 17891914. The roster of biographical entries includes not only canonical composers such as Beethoven Berlioz Brahms Chopin Faurampeacute Grieg Liszt Mahler Mendelssohn Mussorgsky Rossini Schubert Robert Schumann Sibelius Strauss Tchaikovsky Verdi Wagner and Wolf but also lesswellknown distinguished contemporaries of those composers among them George Whitefield Chadwick Campeacutecile Chaminade Ernesto Elorduy Chiquinha Gonzaga Fanny Hensel C. H. Parry and Clara Schumann to name but a few. Significant literary and cultural topics such as Goetheamprsquos Faust and Wagneramprsquos theoretical writings of the 1850s as well as entries on other cultural luminaries who significantly influenced musicamprsquos Romanticisms ampndash among them J. S. Bach Goethe Haydn Handel Heine Mozart Schiller and Shakespeare ampndash are also included. Entries on important institutions conservatory orphampeacuteon Mampaumlnnerchor concepts biographical fallacy copyright exoticism feminism nationalism performance practice and political caesurae and movements First and Second French Empire First Second and Third French Republic FrancoPrussian War Revolutions of 1848 Risorgimento round out the dictionary section.Like other volumes in this series this bookamp39s more than 500 entries are preceded by an introductory essay that explains the essential concepts necessary for understanding and exploring further the vast and complex musical landscape of Romanticism plus a detailed Chronology. Concluding the volume is an extensive bibliography that lists the most important sourcecritical series of editions of Romantic music important general writings on the period and its music and composerbycomposer bibliographies.