CONTENTS

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CHAPTER

I. THE OVERTURE
II. THE ANCIENTS
III. THE MEN OF FLANDERS
IV. ORLAND DI LASSUS AND HIS REGINA
V. HENRY AND FRANCES PURCELL
VI. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF STRADELLA
VII. GIOVANNI AND LUCREZIA PALESTRINA
VIII. BACH, THE PATRIARCH
IX. PAPA AND MAMMA HAYDN
X. THE MAGNIFICENT BACHELOR
XI. GLUCK THE DOMESTIC, ROUSSEAU THE CONFESSOR, AND THE AMIABLE PICCINNI
XII. A FEW TUNESTERS OF FRANCE AND ITALY—PERI, MONTEVERDE, ET AL
XIII. MOZART
XIV. BEETHOVEN: THE GREAT BUMBLEBEE
XV. VON WEBER—THE RAKE REFORMED
XVI. THE FELICITIES OF MENDELSSOHN
XVII. THE NOCTURNES OF CHOPIN

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PRINCESS LICHTENSTEIN (Frontispiece)
DAPHNE
HÉLOISE
MARY STUART
ORLAND DI LASSUS (Roland de Lattre)
HENRY PURCELL
JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH
MORNING PRAYER IN THE FAMILY OF SEBASTIAN BACH
JOSEPH HAYDN
MRS. BILLINGTON
GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD VON GLUCK
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
NICOLA PICCINNI
JEAN BAPTISTE DE LULLY
WOLFGANG MOZART
MOZART, AT VIENNA, PLAYING HIS OPERA "DON JUAN" FOR THE FIRST TIME
LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN
BETTINA BRENTANO VON ARNIM
COUNTESS THÉRÈSE VON BRUNSWICK
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
FREDERICK CHOPIN
GEORGE SAND
COUNTESS POTOCKA
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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