The ten-volume "New Oxford History of Music" represents a complete survey of music from the earliest times until 1960. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the years from 1830 to 1890. This most diverse of musical periods harvested a rich crop of great music, much of which has entered the standard instrumental, orchestral, and operatic repertoire. The first decade of this period saw the coming to maturity of the first generation of Romantic composers - Berlioz, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner and Verdi. By 1890, Wagner, Liszt and Franck had recently died, and the next few years were to witness the deaths of Brahms and Bruckner, and the final masterpieces of Verdi and Tchaikovsky.