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An Entirely New Edition. Revised Throughout.
With Twelve Full-Page Portraits of Celebrated Musicians.
DEDICATED TO PADEREWSKI.
The Music of the Poets:
A MUSICIANS’ BIRTHDAY BOOK.
Compiled by ELEONORE D’ESTERRE-KEELING.
This is an entirely new edition of this popular work. The size has been altered, the page having been made a little longer and narrower (9 × 6½ inches), thus allowing space for a larger number of autographs. The setting-up of the pages has also been improved, and a large number of names of composers, instrumentalists and singers, has been added to those which appeared in the previous edition. A special feature of the book consists in the reproduction in fac-simile of autographs, and autographic music, of living composers; among the many new autographs which have been added to the present edition being those of MM. Paderewski (to whom the book is dedicated), Mascagni, Eugen d’Albert, Sarasate, Hamish McCunn, and C. Hubert Parry. Merely as a volume of poetry about music, this book makes a charming anthology, the selections of verse extending from a period anterior to Chaucer to the present day.