Scholar and composer Emil Naumann (1827-88) studied with Mendelssohn. This two-volume English translation of his best-known work was made by Ferdinand Praeger (1815-91) and published in 1888. Chapters on music in England have been added by its editor, the eminent Victorian musician Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley (1825-89).
A two-volume 1888 English translation of Emil Naumann's Illustrierte Musikgeschichte, with additional chapters on English music by Frederick Gore Ouseley.