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Title: Advice to Young Musicians. Musikalische Haus- und Lebens-Regeln

Author: Robert Schumann

Translator: Henry Hugo Pierson

Release Date: February 28, 2009 [EBook #28219]

Language: English

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ADVICE

TO YOUNG MUSICIANS,

TRANSLATED BY

HENRY HUGO PIERSON.

LEIPSIC & NEW-YORK.

J. SCHUBERTH & CO.

LONDON,

ENT. ST. HALL. EWER & CO.

(This work is copyright.)

Entered according to act of congress AD. 1860 by
J. SCHUBERTH & CO.
in the clerks office of the District Court of the Southern
District of New-York.

The cultivation of the Ear is of the greatest importance.--Endeavour
early to distinguish each several tone and key. Find out the exact notes
sounded by the bell, the glass, the cucko