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Book Review
| From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland. By R. Allen Lott. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii, 366 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-514883-5.)
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| R. Allen Lott explores an essential component in nineteenth-century American music life, the arrival of the virtuoso from Europe. Beginning in the 1840s singers, violinists, pianists, and others came, almost always to make a fortune. Their appearance marks a significant change in the American musical landscape. |
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