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Modern Musicians - A Book For Players, Singers And Listeners
Modern Musicians A Book For Players Singers And Listeners Author:J. Cuthbert Hadden MODERN MUSICIANS A BOOK FOR PLAYERS SINGERS LISTENERS BY J. CUTHBERT H ADDEN AUTHOR OF MASTER MUSICIANS, ETC. T. N. FOULIS LONDON W EDINBURGH 1914 Pint Edition Published October tgrj, Reprinted Jutyty 4, riflWd by BAU. ANTVNK, UANKON A 4 Co, tit the Bktlantyne PM Edinburgh I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY FRIEND MISS DOROTHY WARD a 2 PREFACE THIS is a... more » companion volume to the writers Master Musicians, published in 1909. Like that work, it con cerns itself rather with the musicians themselves than with their compositions or their achievements. It does not profess to be technical indeed, it explicitly avoids the technical, though there is aperhaps excusable sug gestion of the technical in the opening chapters. More over, the author does not claim to have made a com plete, or probably even the best possible selection, of names. Space is limited and to have included all the namesfamiliarto the musical public, wouldhavemeant the book resolving itself into a series of dictionary notices-That kind of thing was never in the authors mind, and is repugnant to him. Here, in a word, are simply some chapters n in in timate musical biography written in a popular style, and meant chiefly for popular reading. The collecting of materials has naturally been diffi cult, since, with one or two exceptions, no books have been published on the various personalities dealt with. I am greatly indebted to the musical magazines of the last ten or twelve years, and, especially as regards the violinists and cellists, to The Strad, I gratefully mention also the works of the American writer, Mr. Henry C, Lahee, on Pianists, Singers, and Violinists. J. C. H. EDINBURGH, Midsummtr 1913 THE LIST OF CHAPTERS r, MODERNITY IN MUSICAL COMPOSITION , PAGE 3 COMPOSERS n. RICHARD STRAUSS 13 in. CLAUDE DEBUSSY 19 iv. SAINT-SAENS 23 v. SOME MODERN CONTINENTALS ... 27 vr. SIR EDWARD ELGAR, O. M 35 vii. GRANVILLE BANTOCK ....,, 42 PIANISTS vni. PADEREWSKI 49 ix. PACHMANN 63 x. EMIL SAUER 69 XI. MO ITZ ROSENTHAL ...... 73 xir. MARK HAMBOURG ....... 77 XIII. SlLOTI 83 xiv. D ALBERT AND CARRE NO 86 xv. BUSONI 91 xvi. BACKHAUS 94 xvn, SOME OTHER PIANISTS .... 97 SINGERS xvin. MKLBA . , 109 xix TKTUAmw , 116 xx. CARUSO 123 xxi. CLARA BUTT 131 xxn. EMMA CALVI . 137 xxni. MMK. KIKKBY LUNN 143 XXIV, Pr. UNKKTT GRKEN , 146 xxv. VARIOUS VOCALISTS ,, 149 VIOLINISTS AND CELLISTS XXVI, YSAYB -. l6l THE LIST OF CHAPTERS xxvii. KUBKLIK . TAC E 166 xxvni. FRANZ VON VECSKY . . . . . ,172 xxix. MARIE HALL t ,176 xxx. MISCHA ELM AN . . ,184 xxxi. JACQUES THIBAUD ...,., 190 xxxii. KRKISLBR ....,,, 193 xxxni. WILLY BURMKSTER 97 xxxiv. CESAR. THOMSON .,,,, 200 xxxv. JEAN GERARDY .,...., 202 XXXVL PABLO DE CASALS ... 205 XXXVIL HUGO BECKER , 208 CONDUCTORS XXXVIIL ABOUT CONDUCTING , . f , 213 xxxix. ARTHUR NIKISCH 224 XL. FELIX WKINGARTNER ...... 230 XLI. SIR HENRY J, WOOD ..,. 23,7 XLII. LANDON RONALD 243 XLIIL SAFONOFF . . , . . . . 251 XLIV. MICHAEL BALLING ..,,.. 255 XLV. WILLBM MENGELBERG 262 XLVI. EMIL MLYNARSKI ...., 266 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS STRAUSS ......,, Frontispiece DEBUSSY PAGE 4 SAINT SAENS 24 GRANVILLE BANTOCK 32 SIR EDWARD ELGAR, O, M 40 PADEREWSKI . . 56 PACHMANN 64 SAUER 72 ROSENTHAL ........ 88 MELBA ........... 112 TETRAZZINI ... 120 CARUSO 128 CLARA BUTT . 136 YSAYE 160 KUBELIK 1 68 MARIE HALL , 176 MISCHA ELMAN 184 SIR HENRY J. WOOD 240 LANDON RONALD 248 BALLING . 2.56 MLYNARSKI 264« less