Excerpt from Lessons in Musical History: A Comprehensive Outline of Musical History From the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Present Time
It ought to be translated into clear and readable English. Dr. Riemann is doubtless the greatest living musical theorist and no student of music can afford to ignore his works. Unfortunately none of them have been translated except his lecture on "The Nature of Harmony" and his "Comparative Piano School."
In biography we are better off The series entitled "The Great Musicians," edited by Franz Hueffer is strongly to he recommended. Its American publishers are Scribner and Welford, New York. Kara-sowski's "Life of Chopin" is now to be had in English. This is the standard biography of Chopin. Liszt's "Chopin" is interesting but is, in some respects, inaccurate and misleading. Schumann's Essays are well-known and so is Wasielwski's "Life of Schumann." It is matter of pride to Americans that the standard life of Beethoven is the production of an American, A. W. Thayer. Unfortunately, it has thus far appeared only in German. The works connected with Mendelssohn's name are numerous and valuable; his letters are especially charming. "Music and Morals" and "My Musical Memories," by the Rev. H. R. Harvies, are excellent reading. But I will not further extend a list which could hardly be made exhaustive. The student who makes his own choice of the books here enumerated will know how to discriminate as to his further reading.
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