The Romantic Composers

THE ROMANTIC COMPOSERS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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ROBERT SCHUMANN From a water color made in Vienna in his youth
DANIEL GREGORY MASON
AUTHOR OF FROM GRIEG TO BRAHMS, BEETHOVEN AND HIS FORERUNNERS, ETC.
Consciously or unconsciously a new school is being founded on the basis of the Beethoven-Schubert romanticism, a school which we may venture to expect will mark a special epoch in the history of art.
SCHUMANN
NEW YORK