[333] During the summer solstice it is dark for only a few hours; and further north, in the land, so-called, of the Midnight Sun, for a few weeks there is perpetual daylight.

[334] He was called by Bülow the Chopin of the North.

[335] An admirable treatment of the whole subject may be found in Vol. III of The Art of Music.

[336] For a detailed account of his life and works consult the essay in Contemporary Russian Composers by Montagu-Nathan and Vol. III of The Art of Music.

[337] For a comprehensive estimate of his style and achievements the following works will prove useful: the Biography, by Eaglefield Hull; the Essay, by Montagu-Nathan in the volume referred to, and an article by W.H. Hadow in the Musical Quarterly for Jan. 1915.

[338] Who lost his life on the Sussex when it was torpedoed by the Germans.

[339] For a comprehensive account, historical and critical, of this influence consult the volume by Carl Van Vechten The Music of Spain.

[340] Some pithy remarks on the habitual English attitude toward music may be found in the history of Stanford and Forsyth, page 313, seq.

[341] See for example the broad theme in the middle portion of the March, Pomp and Circumstance.

[342] This valuation of American composers is made solely on the basis of published compositions.