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Chapters cover violinists and pianists, Viotti, Ludwig Spohr, Nicolo Paganini, de Beriot, Ole Bull, Muzio Clementi, Moscheles, the Schumanns and Chopin, Thalberg and Gottschalk, and Franz Liszt.

Chapters cover, Orland di Lassus, Percell, Stradella, Palestrina, Bach, Haydn, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Mendelssohn, and Chopin.

According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner...

According to Wikipedia: "Henry Purcell 10 September 1659 (?)[2] 21 November 1695, was an English Baroque composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music."

Music explained for children, first published in 1898. "A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach them through an older person. The purpose is to suggest a few of the many aspects which music may have even to the mind of a child. If these chapters, or whatever may be logically...

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately,...

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately,...

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately,...

This short collection of essays includes: A Novelist's Allegory, Some Platitudes Concerning Drama, Meditaino on Finality, Wanted - Schooling, On Our Dislike of Things as They Are, and The Widlestraw. According to Wikipedia: "John Galsworthy ( 1867— 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable...

"Music is a part of life. It is not merely an accomplishment or a hobby, nor yet a means of relaxation from the strenuous business of earning a living. It is not an addendum or an excrescence: it is an actual part of the fabric of life itself. The object of these pages will be to show how closely Music,...

The musicians discussed include: William Byrde, Purcell, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Weber, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Dvorak, Tschaikowsky, and Lamoueux.

According to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets."

Chapters cover: Wagner, Paganini, Chopin, Schumann, Bach, medelssohn, Liszt, Beethoven, Handel, Verdi, Mozart, and Brahms. According to Wikipedia: "Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts...

"Let me hasten to negative the report that I was ever a pupil of Old Fogy. To be sure, I did play for him once a paraphrase of _The Maiden's Prayer_ (in double tenths by Dogowsky), but he laughed so heartily that I feared apoplexy, and soon stopped. The man really existed. There are a score of persons...