Memories : an autobiography / by Walter Macfarren.
| Author/creator | Macfarren, Walter |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1905. |
| Description | xiv, 337 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1826-36. Birth ; Parentage ; Earliest recollections ; Family traditions ; Father's literary taste and dramatic aspirations ; Failure of father's theatrical speculation and consequent ruin ; Various dwelling-places ; Frederick Goodall, R.A. ; Wellington House Academy ; John Hullah ; W.H. Holmes ; J.W. Davison ; Chorister at Westminster Abbey -- 1836-42. Abbey experiences and associates ; Minor canons and vicars-choral ; Death of William IV and coronation of Queen Victoria ; Duke of Cambridge and Sir Robert Peel ; King's College Chapel ; Passion for sister art of drawing ; Experiment in commerce ; First meeting with Mendelssohn ; Duke of Wellington and Charles Lucas ; Sir John Rogers, Hawes, and Tom Cooke ; First appearance at R.A.M., 1837 ; Student in October 18432 ; Theatrical experiences -- 1842-46. Academy studentship ; Debut as pianist ; Earliest compositions ; Concerts of G.A.M. and J.W. Davison ; Mendelssohn ; Ernst ; W.L. Leitch ; J.W. Davison's seances ; Jessie Morris (Mrs. Kuhe) first pupil ; Society of British musicians ; Sonata in C sharp minor and J.W. Davison's criticism ; Southampton adventure -- 1846-50. Associate and assistant-professor, R.A.M. ; Earl of Westmoreland ; Cipriani Potter ; W.H. Holmes ; Charles Lucas ; Sterndale Bennett ; Charlotte Helen Dolby ; Reverends F. Hamilton and W.W. Cazalet ; Production of Elijah at Birmingham ; Mendelssohn's last visit to this country and performances of Elijah at Exeter Hall ; Mendelssohn's departure from London ; Death of Mendelssohn at Leipsic, November 7th ; Full professor at R.A.M. ; Organist of Harrow School ; French Revolution of 1848 ; Frederic Chopin ; Charles Halle ; Thalberg ; Sonata in D for violin and piano ; Associate of the philharmonic ; Chartists' fiasco ; Visit to Norfolk broads ; Jenny Lind and Elijah ; Mendelssohn scholarship ; Retirement from Harrow School ; Success in Novello's part-song competition -- 1851-56. Professional tour ; Great exhibition ; Coup d'Etat ; Marriage ; Frederick Rose ; E.G. Monk ; Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford ; Sir F.A. Gore Ouseley ; Abolition of indoor students at R.A.M. ; Chamber concerts ; F. Goodall, R.A. ; Crimean War ; Val Goold ; Sir Michael Costa ; Frederick Westlake ; First visit to Edinburgh ; Sterndale Bennett as pianist ; Madame Schumann ; Burning of Covent Garden Theatre -- 1857-62. Bristol Madrigal society ; Stratford-on-Avon ; Indian mutiny ; Handel centenary ; Henry Leslie's concerts at St. Martin's Hall ; Second visit to Scotland ; Own choral society ; G.A. Macfarren's May Day ; Monday "Pops" ; Retirement of Cipriani Potter ; Potter exhibition ; Charles Lucas, principal ; Death of the Earl of Westmoreland ; E.G. Monk at York ; Board of professors ; Interview with Right Honourable W.E. Gladstone ; Robin Hood ; Sims Reeves ; Walmer ; Concerts in Hanover square rooms ; Alfredo Piatti ; Third visit to Scotland in company with G.A. Macfarren ; Sir James Simpson ; Jubilee concert of philharmonic ; Change of residence -- 1863-68. Operatic and theatrical reminiscences ; First visit to Paris ; Rossini and Auber ; Isle of Wright ; G.A. Macfarren's productivity ; Connection with the Queen ; Gruneison ; "You stole my love" ; Sir John Goss ; Pupils' loyalty ; North Devon and Cornwall ; John Callow ; Sterndale Bennett, principal of the R.A.M. ; Academy in low water ; Resignation of committee ; Disinterested conduct of professors ; Director and hon. treasurer of philharmonic ; Moscheles ; Charles Dickens -- 1868-73. Reformation symphony ; Philharmonic liberality ; Visit to Thompsons and Menai ; Madame Norman-Neruda ; Elected member of R.A.M. committee ; Retirement of Madame Sainton-Dolby ; "Musical evenings" ; Mr. Gladstone at Walmer ; Sedan and fall of Napoleon III ; Charles Kean and Fetcher ; Centenary of Beethoven's birth at philharmonic ; Frederick Cowen ; "More |
| Contents | 1888-93. Invitation to become a candidate for principalship ; Support of Mackenzie's candidature, and his election ; Mr. H. Littleton's dinner ; Rose of Sharon ; Overture, Romeo and Juliet ; Musical artists ; Death of Mr. H. Littleton ; Brighton ; Messiah at the Abbey ; Westlake's Mass at oratory ; Lectures at Westminster Town Hall, Birkbeck, and London institutions ; Dr. Speer ; Overture, King Henry V ; Dora Bright's recitals ; Death of W.H. Monk ; Edward German's music to Richard III ; R.A.M. club dinner ; Lecture at Darwen ; Charles Sainton ; Lecture at Clapham ; Round, catch, and canon club ; C.M. Widor ; Reception of Sir Charles and Lady Halle at Broadwood's ; A.C. White ; My three "At homes" ; Death of prosper Sainton ; Riseley's concerts ; Lecture at Leeds ; Pianoforte method ; Stratford Festival and Elsie Horne ; Lecture at Lancaster ; Spencer Curwen and Stratford Festival ; Dora Bright at philharmonic ; Henry Lazarus ; Goring Thomas memorial ; Dean Hole ; First lecture at R.A.M. -- 1893-98. Spencer Curwen ; Macfarren room ; Agnes Zimmermann ; George T. Rose ; Philharmonic ; Stratford music festival ; Radley ; Stewart Macpherson ; Pagliacci ; Service in A ; Testimonial ; Trinity college ; Lord Mayor Knill's dinner ; Lecture at Scarborough ; Academy lectures ; "Symphonie pathetique" ; Lecture at Croydon ; Manuel Garcia ; Commemoration concert ; St. Andrew's, Wells Street, and Westminster Abbey ; Lecture at Trinity college ; August Manns ; Dr. Steggall ; Lecutures at the R.A.M. ; St. Paul's ; Emil Sauer ; R.A.M. club dinner ; Adelina Patti ; Royal Academy of Arts banquet ; St. John the Baptist ; Lord Leighton ; Abingdon ; Purcell ; Hampstead parish church ; Dr. E.G. Monk ; Overture, Othello ; Dvorak ; Lewis Thomas ; William Farren ; I.S.M. ; Jubilee dinner to myself ; Pupils' testimonial ; Walter Macfarren gold medals ; Othello at Crystal palace and Bristol ; William Dorrell ; Arts club ; Reception at Broadwood's by old pupils ; Lecutres ; Brynmawr ; Charlton Speer ; Prince and Princess of Wales ; National Eisteddfod ; Leschetitzky -- 1898-1902. Broadwood ; Frederick Westlake ; Academy lectures ; Associated board ; Aske school ; Temple orchestral society ; York Bowen ; Natalie Davenport ; Royal Society of Musicians ; Arthur Thompson ; Alma mater choir ; Elijah at the crystal palace ; Sir A.C. and Lady Mackenzie ; Stock exchange orchestral society ; St. Paul ; David Garrick ; Arthur Sullivan ; Stewart Macpherson ; Authors' club ; Frankfort Moore ; Lectures on Beethoven's sonatas ; Death of Queen Victoria ; The Golden Legend ; Academy lectures ; Sir Hubert Parry -- 1902-1904. Fishmongers' hall ; Alfred Gilbert ; Manuel Garcia ; Emile Sauret ; Merrie England ; King Edward VII ; Lyric vocal union ; Metropolitan examination ; Resignation of academy professorship ; Robertson's Othello ; Last lectures at the Academy ; Memoir in the World ; Marquis of Northampton ; Prince of Wales ; Re-election as member of philharmonic ; Presentation on my retirement ; Sir A.C. Mackenzie ; Pupils' testimonial ; Tonal art club ; Richard II ; Wilhelm Kuhe ; Joseph Hemming ; Tonal art club concert ; Ben Davies ; Tonal art club dinner ; John Tomas ; Wesselly quartet ; Manuel Garcia ; Joseph Joachim ; Royal society of musicians' dinner ; Worshipful company of musicians ; Autograph hunter -- Letters to G.A. Macfarren ; Moscheles ; Cipriani Potter ; Charlotte Helen Dolby ; W.S. Bennett ; Lord Coleridge ; Mrs. Anderson ; John Stainer ; Joseph Joachim ; J.W. Davison ; Manuel Garcia -- Appendix. Walter Macfarren's published works ; Walter Macfarren's unpublished works ; Walter Macfarren's professional pupils at the R.A.M. and elsewhere. |
| Contents | life, more love, more light" at Crystal Palace ; Moscheles' quartet "Les contrastes" ; Death of my mother and Cipriani Potter on the same day ; Sterndale Bennett knighted ; Subscription to found scholarship and prize in his name ; Remarkable demonstration in St. James's Hall ; North Wales ; Adventure at Barmouth in company with W.H. Monk ; Conductor of R.A.M. choir and orchestra ; Dinner to Sterndale Bennett ; Recipients of the first Bennett scholarships and prizes ; F.A. Macfarren's St. John the Baptist at Bristol ; Dr. Hans von Bulow ; G.A. Macfarren's violin concerto ; Ludwig Straus and Carrodus ; Elected member of the arts club ; Sterndale Bennett's "Maid of Orleans" sonata -- 1874-77. Play Bennett's F minor concerto at Birmingham ; Gift of the baton by pupils ; Fourth visit to Scotland ; Brahms and Saint Saens ; Last concert in Hanover Square rooms ; Henry R. Eyers ; Death of Sterndale Bennett ; Interment at Westminster Abbey ; G.A. Macfarren elected principal of the R.A.M. and professor at Cambridge ; Academy and philharmonic do honour to Bennett's memory ; Concerts in St. James's hall ; Enlargement of the academy ; Concert-room ; Scotland again ; Birmingham and The Resurrection ; Llandudno ; Rubinstein ; Arthur Sullivan's The Prodigal Son ; Joseph at Leeds, and Lady of the Lake at Glasgow -- 1878-81. Kuhe's Brighton festival ; Debut of Nanette Kuhe ; Pastoral overture ; First symptom of slight fatigue ; George Critchett and William Bowman ; Pastoral overture at Bristol ; Domestic trouble ; Sarasate at academy ; Frederick Westlake and continental tour ; Overture "Hero and Leander" ; Loss of the Princess Alice ; Henry J. Cockram and Myles Birket Foster ; Val Goold and Glastonbury ; Presentation of silver inkstand ; Sir Henry Irving ; Symphony in B flat ; Scotland and Rock Ferry ; "Hero and Leander" and philharmonic and Brighton ; Stewart Macpherson ; Symphony at Bristol ; Retirement from conductorship at R.A.M. ; Ventnor ; Symphony under F.H. Cowen ; J.W. Davidson's last article in the Times ; "Hero and Leander" at Leeds ; Lecture-recital at Hull ; Resignation of the honorary treasurer and director of Philharmonic ; January 8th, 1881, snowed up between Oxford and London ; Lecture at Bristol ; Tom Lamont and George Du Maurier ; Sir George Grove ; Worcester Festival ; A.C. Mackenzie ; Randegger conductor at Norwich ; Overture King Henry V ; Academy Local centre examinations -- 1882-87. Orchestral concerts in St. James's Hall ; Joachim ; Sainton ; Piatti ; Stanley ; Lectures at Bristol ; Death of Richard Wagner ; Song of the Sunbeam ; Testimonial to G.A. Macfarren, aged seventy ; Knighthood of G.A. Macfarren, and opening of the Royal College of Music ; Dine at Ironmongers' Co. ; Earl Roberts ; Sainton's farewell concert ; Autumnal rambles ; King David at Leeds ; Vladimir de Pachmann ; Philharmonic ; Antonin Dvorak ; Death of Costa ; Radley ; Lectures at Birmingham ; G.A. Macfarren's lecture on Handel and Bach ; Death of Madame Sainton-Dolby ; Westminster orchestral society ; Demise of Brinley Richards, Julius Benedict, J.W. Davison, and W.H. Holmes ; Visit to Buxton ; Manchester gold medals ; Dr. Franz Liszt and Walter Bache ; Fanny Davies ; Liszt scholarship ; F. Lablache ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Littleton ; Lecture at Wallasey ; The three Macs ; G.A. Macfarren's dinner on Mozart's birthday ; G.A. Macfarren's last birthday ; Kenilworth ; Holiday in North of England with G.A. Macfarren ; Death of my brother George ; Funeral in Hampstead, and memorial service in Westminster Abbey ; Interim triumvirate ; St. John the Baptist at academy under Sir Joseph Barnby -- |
| Bibliography note | Includes list of Macfarren's published and unpublished works (pages 308-318) and index. |
| LCCN | 06033628 |
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