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Excerpt from Opera Singers a Pictorial Souvenir: With Biographies of Some, of the Most Famous, Singers of the DayA BR unnhilde or an Isolde hardly is associated with a little village in Maine. Yet Maine is the native State of Mme. Nordica, as it is of two other great Ameri can prima donnas - Mme. Eames and Annie Louise Carey. Mme. Nordica was born in Farmington, in the interior of the State, in 1859. Her parents were musical. Her father, as a ...

Excerpt from The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: 1909When one beholds this City, one is inclined to believe that it is not the City of a particular people, but the Common city of all the peoples of the earth and the center of their commerce.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses ...

Excerpt from Famous American SongsChristy, the famous minstrel who first sang Old Folks at Home The Foster homestead, near Pittsburg Daniel Decatur Emmett Dan Emmett, in old age The Emmett cottage at Mount Vernon, Ohio Facsimile of an author's copy of Dixie Thomas Dunn English, about 1845 Thomas Dunn English, in old age 90.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbo...

Excerpt from The Aeoloian Pipe-OrganOne Wednesday morning there was a ring at the Aeolian Company's telephone and a sharp request to be connected with the pipe-organ Department.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wo...

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Excerpt from The Loves of Great Composers The wonder-child, born in Salzburg in 1756, and taken by his father from court to court, where he and his sister played to admiring audiences, did not, like so many wonder-children, fade from public view, but with manhood fulfilled the promise of his early years and became one of the world's great masters of music. But his genius was not appreciated until too late. The world of to-day sees in Mozart t...

Excerpt from The Central Railroad of New Jersey: An Illustrated Guide-Book (With Road-Maps) Historical. Matter relating to these sec tions has been carefully collected, and the most striking incidents have been incorpo rated in the work in order that the book may have romantic as well as descriptive and sta tistical interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forg...

About the Book Books about Composers of Music describe the lives and musical works of musicians who have created original music, which may be for voice, instruments or orchestra, and may fit into a number of alternative genres. Titles include: A Handbook to Chopin's Works, Beethoven: A Critical Biography, Biographies of Musicians. Life of Haydn, Biographies of Musicians, Life of Liszt, Brahms, Chopin the composer, Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough...

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Excerpt from Wagner's Life and Works, Vol. 1 Hese volumes are the outgrowth of an analysis of The Ring of the Nibelung, published as a pamphlet three years ago. It having passed through four editions, a fifth enlarged and illustrated edition was published last fall. The success of this having proved its usefulness to the lay musical public, the present volumes were under taken. They make pretense to nothing more than giving as much informatio...

Excerpt from The Complete Opera Book: The Stories of the Operas, Together With 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical NotationThrough the thoughtfulness of William J. Henderson I was asked to supply-material for The Complete Opera Book, which was missing at the time of Mr. Kobbé's death. In performing my share of the work it has been my endeavor to confine myself to facts, rather than to intrude with personal opinions upon a Work which...

Kobbé immerses into the love lives of seven great composers and gives us some interesting details about the relationships between Mozart and his wife Constance, Beethoven and Therese Brunswick, Felix and Cécile Mendellsohn, Chopin and the Countess Delphine Potocka, Robert and Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and his Caroline and Richard and Cosima Wagner. His descriptions are as informative as entertaining and will inspire cultural historians, musi...