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Excerpt from The Post-Beethoven Symphonists: The Symphony Writers Since Beethoven
It will be impossible in reading this edition to make such a mistake as to think that I do not believe in a possibility of the development of the symphony, or that I am a prejudiced ad vocate of the cause of programme music versus the symphony; it is even difiicult to see how such a deduction could be drawn from the previous edition. Another objection made to the original book was that I had dis missed as unworthy of notice the names of several prominent composers. In Paris especially, where my treatise has become known through the medium of Madame Chevillard's translation, was this reproach made against me. Although this time I have mentioned more names than before, still even now those of many deserving men are left out. The book is not a register or dictionary of living or dead composers, and so the exactness and amplitude of such a work must not be expected from it.
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