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Excerpt from Annals of Music in Philadelphia and History of the Musical Fund Society: From Its Organization in 1820 to the Year 1858
Second. When, under the stimulus of revolution at home and abroad, under the influence of a growing intellectual freedom and scope, prejudices melted away, music and the other arts were actually encouraged. Third. The transmission of the impe tus of the great classic masters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.