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Simon McVeigh, Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxi + 300 pp. ISBN 0 521 41353 2.

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Simon McVeigh, Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxi + 300 pp. ISBN 0 521 41353 2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Christina Bashford*
Affiliation:
Oxford Brookes University

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