Master Musicians A Book For Players Singers And Listeners PDF Download

Excerpt from Modern Musicians: A Book for Players, Singers Listeners This is a companion volume to the writer's Master Musicians, published in 1909. Like that work, it concerns itself rather with the musicians themselves than with their compositions or their achievements. It does not profess to be technical: indeed, it explicitly avoids the technical, though there is a perhaps excusable suggestion of the technical in the opening chapters. Moreover, the author does not claim to have made a complete, or probably even the best possible selection, of names. Space is limited; and to have included the names familiar to the musical public, would have meant the book resolving itself into a series of dictionary notices. That kind of thing was never in the author's mind, and is repugnant to him. Here, in a word, are simply some "chapters" in intimate musical biography; written in a popular style, and meant chiefly for popular reading. The collecting of materials has naturally been difficult, since, with one or two exceptions, no books have been published on the various personalities dealt with. I am greatly indebted to the musical magazines of the last ten or twelve years, and, especially as regards the violinists and 'cellists, to The Strad. I gratefully mention also the works of the American writer, Mr. Henry C. Lahee, on Pianists, Singers, and Violinists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.