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the Great Masters of Music, by Walter Rowlands
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Title: Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
Author: Walter Rowlands
Release Date: April 13, 2007 [EBook #21056]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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[Frontispiece: The Tone Masters. Haydn, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven. From painting by Hans Temple.]
Among the Great
Masters of Music
Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
Thirty-two Reproductions of Famous Paintings
with Text by
Walter Rowlands
London
E. Grant Richards
1906
TO
Miss Jane Rowlands
CONTENTS.
ST. CECILIA PALESTRINA LULLI STRADIVARIUS TARTINI BACH HANDEL GLUCK MOZART LINLEY HAYDN WEBER BEETHOVEN SCHUBERT ROUGET DE LISLE PAGANINI MENDELSSOHN CHOPIN MEYERBEER WAGNER LISZT
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 THERES