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Birth ; My mother my first teacher ; My father and our family ; Removal to Moscow ; Music lessons ; V.B. Grunberg and her daugther Julia Lvovna ; A.I. Villoing ; The first concert ; Going abroad -- In Paris ; Liszt, Chopin, and other celebrities ; In Holland ; Children-artists ; In London ; The musical memory ; Divided and united Germany ; In the Winter palace ; Emperor Nicholas and the Imperial family -- Return to Moscow ; My departure for Berlin ; Dehn, the teacher of counterpoint ; Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer ; My father's death ; Brother Nicholas ; My first appearance as an author ; Robert Schumann's opinion of me ; Departure for Vienna -- In Vienna ; Letters of introduction ; Hunger and authorship ; Liszt's visit ; Lessons ; Return to Berlin -- Residence in Berlin ; Echoes of revolution ; In the streets of Berlin ; Dehn ; Fantastical enterprises ; The flutist Heindl and Baron Fuhl -- On the frontier of the fatherland ; Arrival in St. Petersburg ; Three incidents -- In St. Petersburg ; Symphony concerts in the university ; A.I. Fitztum ; K.B. Schuberth ; The Russian opera ; The Grand Duchess Helen Pavlovna ; Emperor Nicholas and his relations to musicians and artists ; La Blache ; Opera of "Dmitri Donskoi" and "Thomas the fool" ; A.M. Gedeonov and the singer Bulachov -- Life abroad ; In Moscow at the time of the coronation of the Emperor Alexander II ; At Nice in the suite of the Grand Duchess Helen ; The conception of the Russian Musical Society -- Vassili Alekseyevich Kologrivov ; Foundation in St. Petersburg of the Russian musical society, now the Imperial ; My first idea of founding the degree of Bachelor of music in the department of music ; Friends and opponents of the Russian musical society ; Serov ; The first concerts of the Russian Musical society ; A new feature of musical education in Russia -- Musical classes in the Michael palace ; The teachers and scholars ; The music school ; The conservatory ; The first professors and the first graduating classes of pupils of both sexes ; Relations of society to the conservatory, and its demands upon it ; Services rendered to Russia by the conservatory-- Leaving the conservatory ; My concerts ; Artistic tour in America ; Wieniawski ; The different degrees of musical appreciation in different nations -- My articles on music, and my various musical works ; Historical concerts in the principal cities of Europe ; Entrance upon my second term as director of the conservatory ; My memoranda and projects ; Reforms in the organization of music in Russia regarded as one of the most effective instruments for popular education. |
