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Title: Among the Great Masters of Music
Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians

Author: Walter Rowlands

Release Date: April 13, 2007 [EBook #21056]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMONG THE GREAT MASTERS OF MUSIC ***

Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: The Tone Masters. Haydn, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven.
From painting by Hans Temple.]

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.

ST. CECILIA
PALESTRINA
LULLI
STRADIVARIUS
TARTINI
BACH
HANDEL
GLUCK
MOZART
LINLEY
HAYDN
WEBER
BEETHOVEN
SCHUBERT
ROUGET DE LISLE
PAGANINI
MENDELSSOHN
CHOPIN
MEYERBEER
WAGNER
LISZT

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE TONE MASTERS . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
ST. CECILIA
PALESTRINA
THE YOUNG LULLI
STRADIVARIUS
TARTINI'S DREAM
BACH'S PRELUDES
MORNING DEVOTIONS IN THE FAMILY OF BACH
FREDERICK THE GREAT AND BACH
THE CHILD HANDEL
HANDEL AND GEORGE I.
GLUCK AT THE TRIANON
MOZART AND HIS SISTER BEFORE MARIA THERESA
MOZART AND MADAME DE POMPADOUR
MOZART AT THE ORGAN
THE LAST DAYS OF MOZART
SHERIDAN AT THE LINLEYS'
HAYDN CROSSING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
THE "LAST THOUGHTS" OF VON WEBER
BEETHOVEN AT BONN
BEETHOVEN IN HIS STUDY
A SYMPHONY BY BEETHOVEN
BEETHOVEN'S DREAM
SCHUBERT AT THE PIANO
ROUGET DE LISLE SINGING THE MARSEILLAISE
PAGANINI IN PRISON
SONG WITHOUT WORDS
CHOPIN AT PRINCE RADZIWILL'S
THE DEATH OF CHOPIN
MEYERBEER
WAGNER AT HOME
A MORNING WITH LISZT

PREFACE.

The compiler's thanks are due to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and
to Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, for permission to use a selection
from "The Silent Partner."

Music is the link between spiritual and sensual life.--_Beethoven_.

And while we hear
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