LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[THE TONE MASTERS . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece]
[ST. CECILIA]
[PALESTRINA]
[THE YOUNG LULLI]
[STRADIVARIUS]
[TARTINI'S DREAM]
[BACH'S PRELUDES]
[MORNING DEVOTIONS IN THE FAMILY OF BACH]
[FREDERICK THE GREAT AND BACH]
[THE CHILD HANDEL]
[HANDEL AND GEORGE I.]
[GLUCK AT THE TRIANON]
[MOZART AND HIS SISTER BEFORE MARIA THERESA]
[MOZART AND MADAME DE POMPADOUR]
[MOZART AT THE ORGAN]
[THE LAST DAYS OF MOZART]
[SHERIDAN AT THE LINLEYS']
[HAYDN CROSSING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL]
[THE "LAST THOUGHTS" OF VON WEBER]
[BEETHOVEN AT BONN]
[BEETHOVEN IN HIS STUDY]
[A SYMPHONY BY BEETHOVEN]
[BEETHOVEN'S DREAM]
[SCHUBERT AT THE PIANO]
[ROUGET DE LISLE SINGING THE MARSEILLAISE]
[PAGANINI IN PRISON]
[SONG WITHOUT WORDS]
[CHOPIN AT PRINCE RADZIWILL'S]
[THE DEATH OF CHOPIN]
[MEYERBEER]
[WAGNER AT HOME]
[A MORNING WITH LISZT]
PREFACE.
The compiler's thanks are due to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and to Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, for permission to use a selection from "The Silent Partner."
Music is the link between spiritual and sensual life.—Beethoven.
And while we hear
The tides of Music's golden sea
Setting toward eternity,
Uplifted high in heart and hope are we.
—Tennyson.
Music in the best sense has little need of novelty, on the contrary, the older it is, the more one is accustomed to it, the greater is the effect it produces.—Goethe.
Music is a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that.—Carlyle.