Excerpt from Music in the Xixth Century Series: I. English Music in the Xixth Century; II. French Music in the Xixth Century No musician requires to be told that in the case of one or two of these countries practically their whole musical story is included in the period 1800 - l900, whilst in others, Germany for example, music apparently reached its apogee in the same time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.