Two Volumes. Crown 8vo, $4.00.
CHOPIN
AND
OTHER MUSICAL ESSAYS
BY
HENRY T. FINCK
AUTHOR OF "ROMANTIC LOVE AND PERSONAL BEAUTY"
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1894
COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
TROW'S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO
MRS. JEANNETTE M. THURBER
CONTENTS
PAGE
I. CHOPIN, THE GREATEST GENIUS OF THE PIANOFORTE, 1
II. HOW COMPOSERS WORK, 59
III. SCHUMANN, AS MIRRORED IN HIS LETTERS, 111
IV. MUSIC AND MORALS, 141
V. ITALIAN AND GERMAN VOCAL STYLES, 183
VI. GERMAN OPERA IN NEW YORK, 233
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CHOPIN
THE GREATEST GENIUS OF THE PIANOFORTE
Leipsic, the centre of the world's music trade, exports about one
hundred thousand dollars' worth of music to America every year. I do
not know how much of this sum is to be placed to the account of
Chopin, but a leading music dealer in New York told me that he sold
three times as many of Chopin's compositions as of any other romantic
or classical composer.
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