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Henry Purcell. Record of 1661 / Lord Chamberlain -- Achievement and character / Sir John Hawkins -- The darling of the nation / Charles Burney -- Johann Sebastian Bach. When Bach was not quite ten / Johann Friedrich Agricola and Philip Emanuel Bach -- Bach playing and conducting / Johann Mathias Gesner -- The master's playing on the pedals / Constantin Bellerman -- Bach's character / Johann Nikolaus Forkel -- As a teacher / Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber -- Bach and Frederick the Great / Philip Emanuel Bach (as told to Forkel) -- Georg Friedrich Handel. Childhood of Handel / John Mainwaring -- The legend of Whitchurch / Richard Clark -- The water music / Frederic Bonnet -- A portrait of Handel late in life / Charles Burney -- Handel the master / Sir John Hawkins -- Jean Philippe Rameau. A go-getter / Hughes Maret -- The bitter struggle / Emile Dacier -- Le plus insociable de son temps / Charles Colle -- Another hostile obituary / Friedrich Melchior Grimm -- Eulogy / Michael-Paul-Guide Chabanon -- Christoph Willibald von Gluck. A journey with Gluck / Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf -- A visit to Gluck / Charles Burney -- A clearly defined position / Olivier de Corancez -- The Gluckists and the Piccinists / Claude Joseph Dorat -- He has not his equal / Michael Kelly -- Old age /rJohann Friedrich Reichardt -- Franz Joseph Haydn. What Haydn told of his boyhood / Joseph Carpani -- Kapellmeister in Esterhaz / Anonymous -- Haydn in London / Georg August Griesinger -- Of Haydn's character and habits / Albert Christoph Dies -- Haydn's last days / Stendhal -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Four years old and a genius / Johann Andreas Schachtner -- True miracles are rare / Friedrich Melchior Grimm -- A very earnest letter to his son / Johann Georg Leopold Mozart -- Mozart famous and triumphant / Michael Kelly -- That extraordinary mixture called Mozart / Adolph Heinrich von Schlichtegroll -- The last days of Mozart / Franz Nemetschek -- The death / Joseph Deiner -- Ludwig van Beethoven. A young boy describes the master / Karl Czerny -- A letter to Goethe / Bettina von Arnim -- Beethoven as conductor / Ludwig Spohr -- Hermitage in the Helenenthal / Karl Gottlieb Freudenberg -- Estranged from all the customs of the world / Franz Grillparzer -- Shadows of the approaching end / Dr. L -- The last moments / Anselm Huttenbrenner -- Franz Schubert. Recollections of my brother / Ferdinand Schubert -- In school / Anton Holzapfel -- Shy, awkward, shabbily dressed / Joseph Freiherr von Spaun -- Schubert's only love / Anselm Huttenbrenner -- Schubertiads / Franz and Fritz von Hartmann -- Schubert's death / Franz von Schober -- Hector Berlioz. A young Romantic / Ernest Legouve -- The personality of Berlioz / Ferdinand Hiller -- With admiration, without sympathy / Richard Wagner -- Genius, peculiarities and limitations / Sir Charles Halle -- In reality he had a kind heart / Camille Saint-Saens -- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. The boy's visit to Goethe / Ludwig Rellstab -- Mendelssohn at the height of his career / William Smyth Rockstro -- A strange and fascinating character / Eduard Philipp Devrient -- Robert Schumann. Letter to Robert's mother / Friedrich Wieck -- How the young Schumann looked / F. Gustav Jansen -- Darkness falls / Friedrich Niecks -- Final collapse / Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski -- From her diaries / Clara Schumann -- Frederic Francois Chopin. Chopin at twenty-five / Felix Mendelssohn -- Chopin's personality and appearance / Franz Liszt -- Terrors and phantoms / George Sand -- How Chopin played / Alfred James Hipkins -- A child listens / Anne Richmond Richie -- Death of Chopin / Moritz Karasowski -- Franz Liszt. Notes of a tender father / Adam Liszt -- Fascination / Marie Countess d'Agoult -- Liszt as monarch of piano virtuosos / Josef Fischhoff -- One of many pupils / Amy Fay -- Liszt plays for me / The Reverend Hugh R. Hawes -- Richard Wagner. Richard the boy / Ferdinand Praeger -- Miserable interlude in Paris / Friedrich Pecht -- Tannhauser in Paris / Malwida von Meysenbug -- Refuge in Mariafeld / Eliza Wille -- From the diaries / Cosima Wagner -- In Bayreuth / Sophie Rutzow -- Everything is over / Paul von Joukowsky -- Giuseppe Verdi. Childhood of poverty / Francis Toye -- Verdi told me / Giulio Ricordi -- Dictatorial attitude / Mariana Barbieri-Nini -- Rigidity and equilibrium / Blanche Roosevelt -- The villa of Sant' Agata / Antonio Ghislanzoni -- The end / Arrigo Boito -- Johannes Brahms. A hard beginning / Eduard Marxsen -- New paths / Robert Schumann -- Brought to light / Albert Dietrich -- How Brahms worked / Max Kalbeck -- Debussy visits old Brahms / Andrew de Ternant -- The personality of Brahms / Guido Adler -- Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky. Musorgsky as a young officer / Nikolai Kompaneisky -- As seen by an old friend / Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakoff -- Our poor Musoryanin! / Ilya Yefimovich Repin -- The desperate last years / D. Mikhailovna Leonova -- Last hours / Serge Bertensson -- Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. The indefinable charm of the child / Fanny Duerbach -- The years at the conservatory / Herman Augustovich Laroche -- Beloved friend / Nadejda Filaretova von Meck -- My brother-in-law / P. V. Tchaikovsky -- Sir Arthur Sullivan. Arthur's chapel royal days / Christopher Vickry Bridgman -- Twenty-five years old / Ernest G. de Glehn -- How author and composer worked together / Francois Cellier -- How the operas were produced / Sir Arthur Lawrence -- Claude Debussy. A short sketch of the student / Camille Bellaigue -- Debussy in his teens / Gabriel Pierne -- The eighteen-year old / Marguerite Vasnier -- An intolerant critic / J. G. Prodhomme -- Le maitre toujours insatisfait / Pasteur Vallery-Radot -- Richard Strauss. Richard's start in life / Franz Trenner -- Interview with Richard Strauss / William Armstrong -- The greatest composer of his time / Sidney S. Bloch -- Revelations of his working methods / Max Marschalk -- Last visit to Richard Strauss / Rudolf Hartmann -- Gustav Mahler. The young kapellmeister / Bruno Walter -- Personality of Mahler / Guido Adler -- Mahler in New York / Ugo Giardini -- The end / Alma Mahler -- George Gershwin. My brother's childhood / Ira Gershwin -- Gershwin liked being Gershwin / Rouben Mamoulian -- The last months / Oscar Levant. |
