The second half of the nineteenth-century witnessed a significant revival of interest in English music. Meirion Hughes argues that this 'English Musical Renaiss

The importance of nineteenth-century writing about culture has long been accepted by scholars, yet so far as music criticism is concerned, Victorian England has

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