Orchestrating the nation : the nineteenth-century American symphonic enterprise /

Shadle, Douglas W.,

Orchestrating the nation : the nineteenth-century American symphonic enterprise / Douglas W. Shadle. - 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The launch of the enterprise -- Anthony Philip Heinrich, hapless wanderer -- William Henry Fry, operatic translator -- George Frederick Bristow, American stalwart -- The rivalry of nations -- The end of an era -- Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Pan-American republican -- John Knowles Paine, universal classicist -- The rivalry of generations -- Ellsworth Phelps, Brooklyn patriot -- The winds of change -- Antonin Dvorak, Bohemian prophet.

9780199358663 (e-book)


Symphony--United States--19th century.
Music--History and criticism.--United States--19th century


Electronic books.

ML1255 / .S53 2016

784.20973/09034