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the history of the violin, 1864
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1BOOKS ABOUT MUSICIANS AND THEIR WORKS
3FROM MENDELSSOHN TO WAGNER. Being the Memoirs of J. W. Davison, forty years Music Critic of The Times, compiled by his son, HENRY DAVISON, from Memoranda and Documents. With 52 portraits of Musicians and Important Letters (previously unpublished) of Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Gounod, Jullien, Macfarren, Sterndale Bennett, etc. Index, 539 pages, 8vo, cloth, 42/-
5MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Essays and Criticisms, by ROBERT SCHUMANN. Translated, Edited and Annotated by F. R. RITTER. Two volumes, crown 8vo, cloth, 35/– each.
7Schumann’s literary gifts and interests almost equalled his musical ones. From boyhood he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century. The same fire, poetry, directness of expression, the same inventiveness we love in his compositions, also animates his prose.
9MUSICAL MEMORIES. By WILLIAM SPARK, Mus.Doc. (late Organist of the Town Hall, Leeds). Third Edition. With sixteen Portraits. Thick crown 8vo, cloth, 10/–
11REEVES’ DICTIONARY OF MUSICIANS. Biographical Accounts of about 2,500 Noteworthy Musicians of the Past and Present. Edited by EDMUNDSTOUNE DUNCAN and Others. Crown 8vo, cloth, 7/6, paper covers, 4/–
13SKETCHES OF ENGLISH GLEE COMPOSERS. Historical, Biographical and Critical. From about 1735–1866. By D. BAPTIE. Post 8vo, cloth, 10/–
15SOME MUSICAL RECOLLECTIONS OF FIFTY YEARS. By RICHARD HOFFMAN. With Memoir by MRS. HOFFMAN. Illustrated with many Portraits. Crown 8vo, cloth, 10/–
17An interesting book of reminiscences by a prominent Anglo-American pianist and composer (1831–1909). He studied under Pleyel, Moscheles, Rubinstein and Liszt, and became a concert pianist in New York, and also toured with Jenny Lind. Hoffman composed and published many pianoforte pieces of the brilliant kind in vogue at the time.
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