By Rupert Hughes Illustrated Volume I. 1903
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE OVERTURE
CHAPTER II. THE ANCIENTS Daphne
CHAPTER III. THE MEN OF FLANDERS
CHAPTER IV. ORLAND DI LASSUS AND HIS REGINA Orland di Lassus
CHAPTER V. HENRY AND FRANCES PURCELL Henry Purcell
CHAPTER VI. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF STRADELLA
CHAPTER VII. GIOVANNI AND LUCREZIA PALESTRINA
CHAPTER VIII. BACH, THE PATRIARCH John Sebastian Bach
CHAPTER IX. PAPA AND MAMMA HAYDN Joseph Haydn
CHAPTER X. THE MAGNIFICENT BACHELOR
CHAPTER XI. GLUCK THE DOMESTIC, ROUSSEAU THE CONFESSOR, AND THE
CHAPTER XII. A FEW TUNESTERS OF FRANCE AND ITALY PERI, MONTEVERDE, ET AL.
CHAPTER XIII. MOZART Wolfgang Mozart
CHAPTER XIV. BEETHOVEN: THE GREAT BUMBLEBEE Ludwig von Beethoven
CHAPTER XV. VON WEBER THE RAKE REFORMED Carl Maria von Weber
CHAPTER XVI. THE FELICITIES OF MENDELSSOHN Felix Mendelssohn
CHAPTER XVII. THE NOCTURNES OF CHOPIN Frederick Chopin
