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