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Article: The Nineteenth-Century Symphony.
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Edited by D. Kern Holoman. (Studies in Musical Genres and Repertories.) New York: Schirmer Books, 1997. [xvii, 468 p. ISBN 0-02-871105-X. $42.]
The shadow of Ludwig van Beethoven looms large over nineteenth-century music. Unlike the string quartet and piano sonata - genres in which Beethoven's intimidating output stifled his successors for nearly a century - the symphony thrived and prospered as composers sought to meet the challenges set down by the greatest symphonist of all.
For obvious reasons, then, this latest addition to Schirmer's Studies in Musical Genres and Repertories makes perfect sense. As with other volumes in this series, The ...