The Harmonicon was an influential English musical periodical of the early nineteenth century, and this volume gathers the first part of its contents. The journal combined critical articles, reviews, biographical notices, and reports of musical life with printed music for its subscribers.
As a periodical it documents the concerts, publications, and controversies of the musical world of its day, offering a rich record of taste and opinion in Georgian and early Victorian England. Its essays and reviews preserve contemporary responses to the music and musicians of the age. For historians of nineteenth-century musical culture, The Harmonicon remains a valuable and detailed primary source.