Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism in Three Volumes, Volume 1 |
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... musicians within the limits of his domain of emotion and picturesque superstition . Religious music is not now the ... musician ) . Mozart , the immediate inheritor of Bach's supremacy , was so orthodox a man in his nonage that he ...
... musicians within the limits of his domain of emotion and picturesque superstition . Religious music is not now the ... musician ) . Mozart , the immediate inheritor of Bach's supremacy , was so orthodox a man in his nonage that he ...
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... musician of morbid sensibility and ardent imagination poisons himself with opium in a fit of despair caused by love . The dose , not sufficient to kill him , plunges him into a heavy sleep , accompanied by the strangest visions , during ...
... musician of morbid sensibility and ardent imagination poisons himself with opium in a fit of despair caused by love . The dose , not sufficient to kill him , plunges him into a heavy sleep , accompanied by the strangest visions , during ...
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... musician , stirred up all the hero worship in our little world of music and all the lionizing in our big world of ... musicians of good credit think that he judged himself rightly . Mr Bache , for instance , has given us concert after ...
... musician , stirred up all the hero worship in our little world of music and all the lionizing in our big world of ... musicians of good credit think that he judged himself rightly . Mr Bache , for instance , has given us concert after ...
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