Author of "Jean-Christophe," and called by W. J. Henderson "The most interesting of living critics of Music and Musicians."
SOME MUSICIANS OF FORMER DAYS
Translated from the fourth French edition by Mary Blaiklock. $1.50 net.
The Place of Music in General History; The Beginning of Opera; The First Opera Played in Paris; Notes on Lully, and shorter but vivid papers on Gluck, Grétry, and Mozart.
" ... One of the greatest of living musical scholars. He is also the most interesting of contemporaneous writers.... Written with brilliant scholarship, with critical insight and with flashes of human sympathy and humor.... Every lover of music should hasten to give himself the pleasure of a persual of this delightful volume which radiates learning, keen judgment and sympathetic humor."—New York Sun.
MUSICIANS OF TO-DAY
Translated from the fifth French edition by Mary Blaiklock. With an Introduction by Claude Landi. 324 pp. $1.50 net.
Berlioz's stormy career and music, Wagner's "Siegfried" and "Tristan," Saint-Saëns, Vincent D'Indy, Hugo Wolf, Debussy's "Pelléas and Mélisande," "The Musical Movement in Paris," and an absorbing paper on the Concert-Music of Richard Strauss, etc.
"May surely be read with profit by the musically uneducated and educated."—Philip Hale in the Boston Herald.
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