All musical excerpts are scans from the original book except for that on page 269, which has been reproduced due to damage in the original book. Below each musical excerpt is a link to a midi file [Listen].
Transcriber’s Changes:
[Page 35]: Was ‘Wesendonk’ (as if I had it by heart,” he writes from Venice to Mathilde Wesendonck, in relating to her the genesis of the great love)
[Page 139]: Was ‘Traümerei’ (And then there are the “Scenes from Childhood,” to which belongs the “Träumerei”; the “Forest Scenes,” the “Sonatas;”)
[Page 172]: Was ‘Pathètique’ (while for his “Symphonie Pathétique,” one of the finest of modern orchestral works, Tschaikowsky adds only a bass tuba)