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MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANY
FROM
THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE
OF AMY FAY
EDITED BY
MRS. FAY PEIRCE
Author of "CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING"
| "The light that never was on sea or land." |
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| "Pour admirer assez il faut admirer trop, et un peu d'illusion |
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WITH A PREFATORY NOTE
BY O. G. SONNECK
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922
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COPYRIGHT,
JANSEN, McCLURG & COMPANY
1880.
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Copyright, 1896,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Printed August, 1896; reprinted June, 1897;
September, 1900; February, 1903; March, 1905;
June, 1908; July, 1909; August, 1913; April, 1922.
Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith, Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.
PREFATORY NOTE.
COMPARATIVELY few books on music have enjoyed thedistinction of reissue. Twenty-one editions is an amazingrecord for a book of so narrow a subject as "MusicStudy in Germany." The case of Miss Amy Fay's volumebecomes all the more unusual, if one considers thather letters were written only for home, not for a publicaudience and further that within twenty years from theyear of first publication, her observations had becomemore or less obsolete.
The Germany of the years 1869-1875 was quite differentfrom the Germany of 1900 and certainly of 1912,even down to German table-manners. The earlier"Spiessbürgertum" of which Miss Fay gives such entertainingglimpses even in high quarters with their pompand circumstance, was rapidly being replaced, at leastoutwardly, by the more cosmopolitan culture of the finde siècle, not to mention the ambition for political, industrialand commercial "Weltmacht" in a nationthitherto known, perhaps too romantically, as a nationof "Denker und Dichter."
Most of the heroes of the book are long since dead,Miss Fay included, who died in 1921. While evenas late as 1890, Miss Fay's volume could have beenused as a guide of orientation by the would-be student ofmusic in Germany, certainly i