Among the Great Masters of Music / Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
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Chapters (62)
- Among the Great Masters of Music
- Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
- Thirty-two Reproductions of Famous Paintings with Text by Walter Rowlands
- London E. Grant Richards 1906
- TO Miss Jane Rowlands
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- PREFACE.
- AMONG THE GREAT MASTERS OF MUSIC.
- ST. CECILIA.
- St. Cecilia. From painting by Raphael
- PALESTRINA.
- Palestrina. From painting by Ferdinand Heilbruth.
- LULLI.
- The Young Lulli. From painting by H. de la Charlerie.
- STRADIVARIUS.
- Stradivarius. From painting by E. J. C. Hamman.
- TARTINI.
- Istria to Giuseppe Tartini, 1896.
- Tartini's Dream. From painting by James Marshall.
- BACH.
- Bach's Preludes. From painting by E. J. C. Hamman.
- Morning Devotions in the Family of Bach. From painting by Toby E. Rosenthal.
- Frederick the Great and Bach. From painting by Herman Kaulbach.
- HANDEL.
- The Child Handel. From painting by Margaret Dicksee.
- Handel and George I. From painting by E. J. C. Hamman.
- GLUCK.
- Gluck at the Trianon. From painting by E. J. C. Hamman.
- MOZART.
- Mozart and His Sister before Maria Teresa. From painting by A. Borckmann.
- Mozart and Madame de Pompadour. From painting by V. de Paredes.
- Mozart at the Organ. From painting by Carl Herpfer.
- The Last Days of Mozart. From painting by Herman Kaulbach.
- LINLEY.
- Sheridan at the Linleys. From painting by Margaret Dicksee.
- HAYDN.
- Haydn Crossing the English Channel. From painting by E. J. C. Hamman.
- WEBER.
- The "Last Thoughts" of Von Weber. From painting by E. J. C. Hamman.
- BEETHOVEN.
- Beethoven at Bonn. From painting by Paul Leyendecker.
- Beethoven in His Study. From painting by Carl Schloesser.
- A Symphony by Beethoven. From painting by A. Graefle.
- Beethoven's Dream. From painting by Aimé de Lemud.
- SCHUBERT.
- Schubert at the Piano. From painting by Gustav Klimt.
- ROUGET DE LISLE.
- Rouget de l'Isle Singing the Marseillaise. From painting by I. A. A. Pils.
- PAGANINI.
- Paganini in Prison. From painting by Ferdinand Barth.
- MENDELSSOHN.
- Song without Words. From painting by R. Poetzelberger.
- CHOPIN.
- Chopin at Prince Radziwill's. From painting by H. Siemiradski.
- The Death of Chopin. From painting by Felix Joseph Barrias.
- MEYERBEER.
- Mayerbeer. From painting by E. J. C. Hamman.
- WAGNER.
- Wagner at Home. From painting by W. Beckmann.
- LISZT.
- A Morning with Liszt. From drawing by Joseph Kriehuber.
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