Success in music and how it is won /
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New York :
C. Scribner's sons,
1909.
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Table of Contents:
- Does music pay?
- Are great artists happy?
- Two Swedish nightingales. Jenny Lind. Christine Nilsson
- Italian prima donnas. Adelina Patti. Catalani and Pasta. Tetrazzini: a musical mystery
- Two Spanish sisters. Pauline Viardot Garcia. Maria Malibran.
- The nationality of singers
- German and Austrian singers. Mara and Sontag. Schroder-Devrient, Wagner's idol. Lilli Lehmann, Wagner's ideal. Marianne Brandt. Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Pauline Lucca. Marcella Sembrich
- Melba, Garden, and Calve. Nellie Melba. Mary Garden. Emma Calve
- Three American sopranos. Lillian Nordica. Emma Eames. Geraldine Farrar
- Is the art of song decaying?
- Modern improvements in tenors. Rubini, "King of tenors". Mario's modern traits. Tamagno and Campanini. Enrico Caruso. Why De Reszke was supreme
- Four up-to-date baritones. Charles Santley. Victor Maurel. Maurice Renaud. Ludwig Wullner
- Evolution of the piano virtuoso
- How Beethoven played and taught
- Chopin as pianist and teacher
- Liszt and his pupils
- Hints by Hans von Bulow
- Rubinstein the Leonine
- Paderewski and his secrets
- Paganini and Kubelik. Niccolo Paganini. Jan Kubelik
- Remenyi and Ole Bull. Edouard Remenyi. Ole Bull
- Spohr and Joachim. Louis Spohr. Joseph Joachim
- Wilhelmj and Kreisler. August Wilhelmj. Fritz Kreisler
- Some famous teachers. William Mason: an American pioneer. Leschetizky, Paderewski's teacher. Ottokar Sevcik, Kubelik's teacher. How Garcia helped singers. Jean De Reszke as teacher
- Hints to teachers
- Advice to parents
- Hints to pupils, singers, and players
- Paderewski on tempo rubato.