The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
Chapters (47)
- The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
- Illustrated Volume I. 1903
- NOTE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I.
- THE OVERTURE
- CHAPTER II.
- THE ANCIENTS
- CHAPTER III.
- THE MEN OF FLANDERS
- CHAPTER IV.
- ORLAND DI LASSUS AND HIS REGINA
- CHAPTER V.
- HENRY AND FRANCES PURCELL
- CHAPTER VI.
- THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF STRADELLA
- CHAPTER VII.
- GIOVANNI AND LUCREZIA PALESTRINA
- CHAPTER VIII.
- BACH, THE PATRIARCH
- CHAPTER IX.
- PAPA AND MAMMA HAYDN
- CHAPTER X.
- THE MAGNIFICENT BACHELOR
- CHAPTER XI.
- GLUCK THE DOMESTIC, ROUSSEAU THE CONFESSOR, AND THE AMIABLE PICCINNI
- ROUSSEAU THE CONFESSOR
- THE AMIABLE PICCINNI
- CHAPTER XII.
- A FEW TUNESTERS OF FRANCE AND ITALY—PERI, MONTEVERDE, ET AL.
- LULLY THE IMP
- THE TACITURN RAMEAU
- PERGOLESI
- KEISER
- BONONCINI AND THE SCARLATTIS
- CHAPTER XIII.
- MOZART
- CHAPTER XIV.
- BEETHOVEN: THE GREAT BUMBLEBEE
- CHAPTER XV.
- VON WEBER—THE RAKE REFORMED
- CHAPTER XVI.
- THE FELICITIES OF MENDELSSOHN
- CHAPTER XVII.
- THE NOCTURNES OF CHOPIN
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