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Title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Release Date: January 9, 2007 [EBook #20318]

Language: English

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Little
Journeys
To the Homes of the Great

Elbert Hubbard

Anniversary Edition

Printed and made into a Book by
The Roycrofters, who are in East
Aurora, Erie County, New York

Wm. H. Wise & Co.
New York

Copyright, 1916,
By The Roycrofters

CONTENTS

RICHARD WAGNER 9

PAGANINI 47

FREDERIC CHOPIN 75

ROBERT SCHUMANN 107

SEBASTIAN BACH 133

FELIX MENDELSSOHN 161

FRANZ LISZT 185

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 221

GEORGE HANDEL 249

GIUSEPPE VERDI 273

WOLFGANG MOZART 297

JOHANNES BRAHMS 331

INDEX

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[Illustration: RICHARD WAGNER]

RICHARD WAGNER

Was ever work like mine created for no purpose? Am I a miserable
egotist, possessed of stupid vanity? It matters not, but of this I
feel positive; yes, as positive as that I live, and this is, my
"Tristan and Isolde," with which I am now consumed, does not find
its equal in the world's library of music. Oh, how I yearn to hear
it; I am feverish; I am worn. Perhaps that causes me to be agitated
and anxious, but my "Tristan" has been finished now these three
years and has not been heard. When I think of this I wonder whether
it