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decline-mid-19th-century
Assertion
Improvisation remained an important part of Western classical music well into the nineteenth century, and disappeared almost completely from public performance around the middle of the century, as the Western musical canon became firmly established.
Quote
Nineteenth-century improvisation, on the contrary, disappeared almost completely from public performance at the time the Western musical canon became firmly established.
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en
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page: 226–227
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