Note 86 — Chapter VI · THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT: ITS CHARACTERISTICS AND ITS GROWTH
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Born in Altona, near Hamburg, 1824; a highly educated musician, distinguished as pianist, conductor, composer, pedagogue, and critic. As conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and as professor of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory he exerted a long and powerful influence. As composer he followed the school of Mendelssohn and Schumann, was very prolific and distinguished by brilliant musicianship and ingenious if not highly original imagination. Besides operas, singspiele cantatas, symphonies, etc., he published excellent chamber music and many piano works.