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William Mason. Memories of a Musical Life
Memories of a Musical Life
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MEMORIES. OF A MUSICAL LIFE
EARLY DAYS IN NEW ENGLAND
LOWELL MASON'S CAREER
FIRST BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY IN AMERICA
MUSICAL CONVENTIONS
EARLY MUSICAL TRAINING
WEBSTER AND CLAY
FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE
LEOPOLD DE MEYER
"FATHER HEINRICH"
AN EMBARRASSING EXPERIENCE
STUDENT LIFE ABROAD
MEETING WITH MEYERBEER
LISZT'S FEAT OF MEMORY
FIRST MEETING WITH LISZT
ARRIVAL AT LEIPSIC
MOSCHELES, BEETHOVEN, AND CHOPIN
THE INTIMACY OF MOSCHELES AND MENDELSSOHN
SCHUMANN
SCHUMANN'S "SYMPHONY NO. 1, B FLAT"
SCHUMANN'S ABSENT-MINDEDNESS
MORITZ HAUPTMANN
A VISIT TO WAGNER
WAGNER ON MENDELSSOHN AND BEETHOVEN
A WAGNER AUTOGRAPH
MOSCHELES
JOSEPH JOACHIM
SCHUMANN'S "CONCERTO IN A MINOR"
CARL MAYER
DREYSCHOCK
PRINCE DE ROHAN'S DINNER
CHOPIN, HENSELT, AND THALBERG
ANTON SCHINDLER, "AMI DE BEETHOVEN"
SCHINDLER AND SCHNYDER VON WARTENSEE
FIRST LONDON CONCERT
WITH LISZT IN WEIMAR
ACCEPTED BY LISZT
THE ALTENBURG
HOW LISZT TAUGHT
"PLAY IT LIKE THIS"
LISZT IN 1854
HIS FASCINATION
LISZT'S INDIGNATION
OBJECTS TO MY EYE-GLASSES
A MUSICAL BREAKFAST
LISZT'S PLAYING
LISZT AND PIXIS
LISZT CONDUCTING
LISZT'S SYMPHONIC POEMS—REHEARSING "TASSO"
EXTRACTS FROM A DIARY
OPPORTUNITIES
BRAHMS IN 1853
NERVOUS BEFORE LISZT
DOZING WHILE LISZT PLAYED
"LOHENGRIN" FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LEIPSIC
IN STUTTGART—HOTEL MARQUAND
THE SCHUMANN "FEIER" IN BONN, 1880
BRAHMS'S PIANOFORTE-PLAYING
A HISTORICAL ERROR CORRECTED
MORE ABOUT LISZT'S WONDERFUL SIGHT-READING
LISZT'S MOMENTS OF CONTRITION
PETER CORNELIUS
SOME FAMOUS VIOLINISTS
REMENYI
SOME DISTINGUISHED OPERA-SINGERS
HENRIETTE SONTAG
JOHANNA WAGNER
MME. DE LA GRANGE
"DER VEREIN DER MURLS"
THE WAGNER CAUSE IN WEIMAR
RAFF IN WEIMAR
DR. ADOLF BERNHARD MARX
BERLIOZ IN WEIMAR
ENTERTAINING LISZT'S "YOUNG BEETHOVEN"
RUBINSTEIN'S OPPOSITION TO WAGNER
AT WORK IN AMERICA
TOURING THE COUNTRY
"YANKEE DOODLE" AND "OLD HUNDRED"
SETTLING DOWN TO TEACH
THEODORE THOMAS AT TWENTY
THOMAS AS CONDUCTOR
KARL KLAUSER, MUSICAL DIRECTOR AT MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL
LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
PROPAGANDA FOR SCHUMANN'S MUSIC
SIGISMOND THALBERG
PEDAL AND PEDAL SIGNS—WHY NOT DISPENSE WITH THE LATTER?
RUBINSTEIN AND THE AUTOGRAPH-HUNTER
EVOLUTION IN MUSICAL IDEAS BEETHOVEN PIANOFORTE RECITALS
RUBINSTEIN'S FAVORITE SEAT AT A PIANOFORTE RECITAL
BACH'S "TRIPLE CONCERTO" AND "LES AGRÉMENTS"
A SIGNIFICANT AUTOGRAPH FROM RUBINSTEIN
RUBINSTEIN, PADEREWSKI, AND "YANKEE DOODLE"
MEETINGS WITH VON BÜLOW
EDVARD GRIEG
RATES OF TEMPO—THE PRESENT TIME COMPARED WITH FIFTY YEARS AGO
ELECTROCUTING CHOPIN
TEMPO RUBATO
UNUSUAL PUPILS—TRANSPOSING—POSITIVE AND RELATIVE PITCH
APPLEDORE, ISLES OF SHOALS
MUSIC IN AMERICA TO-DAY
APPENDIX
Part I. EARLY LIFE OF LOWELL MASON
Part II. LISZT'S LETTERS
INDEX
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