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Further more, Weber advanced the techniques of orchestration so that he appears in the history of music as a forerunner of both Berlioz in France and Wagner hi Germany.

He is an important link.

Although German romantic music before Wagner was not explicitly nationalistic, in other ways it fitted in with the general romantic cur rent, which was distinctly nationalist.

Liberalism and conservatism oc cupied a secondary place in the minds of the leaders of thought.

Either could have marched hand in hand with nationalism, but the battle that was to be fought in German history from 1848 to 1871 was to decide which it was to be.