Anecdotes of great musicians. : Three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers / By W. Francis Gates.
| Author/creator | Gates, W. Francis |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : T. Presser, 1905 [©1895] |
| Description | xiii, 9-309 pages ; 20 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A basso's wit -- A bold pupil -- A boy's memory -- A burial place denied -- A charitable trio -- A comical revenge -- A concert preacher -- A compliment from Haydn -- A composer's chagrin -- A costly fiddle -- A critical composition -- A deserved chastisement -- A double dose of Brahms -- A dressing room war -- A fiddler's trick -- A frightened desdemona -- A great German songstress -- A great thief -- A gentle critic -- A gory drumstick -- A great quartet -- A hatful of pearls -- A kind act -- A little trick of Paganini's -- A long encore number -- A musical priest -- A musical tragedy -- A narrow escape -- A particular prima donna -- A patient pupil -- A Patti reception that she didn't receive -- A peculiar genius -- A peculiar visiting card -- A prima donna's pets -- A queen's regard for her music teacher -- A second Napoleon -- A sharp rejoinder -- A singer's sense -- A sight for the boys -- A song for forty -- A sudden cure -- A test for precocity -- A pyrotechnic violoncello -- A violin for eighteen pence -- A witty songstress -- Absent minded -- An absent-minded conductor -- An army, a cow and a prima donna -- An earnest student -- An episode in the life of an artist -- An erratic prima donna -- An even distribution of honors -- An eventful career -- An exciting musical duel -- An ignorant tenor -- An interrupted concert -- An interrupted strain -- An interrupted opera -- An obese basso -- An opera sacrificed -- An uncringing reply -- An unorthodox creed -- An untalented royal pupil -- Another way -- Artistic aversion to empty honors -- Aristocratic patronage Hadyn's farewell -- Arrested for treason -- Art before business -- Artistic pride -- Bach's great works how enjoyed by some -- Balfe's strange room mate -- Baton waving Lully losing a limb -- Beethoven a la cupid -- Beethoven brain owner -- Beethoven's first triumph -- Beethoven's forgetfulness -- Beethoven's friends -- Beethoven gratitude -- Beethoven's kiss -- Beethoven punished -- Berlioz and Paganini -- Bulow's bits -- But one seat left -- Campanini as a soldier -- Catalini and Goethe -- Cherubini as a revolutionary fiddler -- Choleric Handel -- Chopin's technic -- Clementi's economy -- Clerical wit -- Conscientious acting and singing -- Cooperative composition -- Costly admiration -- Cuzzoni Bordoni -- Delayed appreciation -- Discovered a nightingale -- Disposing of an audience -- Earning a violin easily -- Englyshe meetre -- Fallible -- Field fooled -- Forewarned is forearmed -- Fortunes in fiddles -- French wit -- Friends -- From humble origin to wealth and fame -- Fugues and chess -- Fun on the stage -- Gallant Haydn -- Genius discovered by punishment -- Glimpses of Cherubini -- Gluck Piccini -- Goat hair for hero worshipers -- Good English in song -- Gounod's Faust -- Great musical memories -- Handel Buononcini -- Handel's duel -- Handel's escape -- Handel's persuasiveness -- Handel's successful scheme -- Handel's youth -- Haydn's noble English pupil -- Hadyn's last appearance -- Haydn's reception by Prince Esterhazy -- He didn't purchase -- High art -- History repeats itself -- Honest opinions -- How Berlioz fooled the critics -- How Paganini secured his favorite fiddle -- How to make a singer sing -- How to secure a successful debut -- Humor in composition -- Il Trovatore -- Imagination a factor in hearing music -- Impositions on musicians -- In Bulow's class room -- Irish enthusiasm -- Jealousy in the family -- Jenny Lind's generosity -- Keeping at it -- Keep in with the accompanist -- Lablache and Tom Thumb -- Leoncavallo's whimsical opinion of his clowns -- Liszt as an advertiser -- Liszt's completion of the Beethoven monument -- Liszt on Mendelssohn -- Liszt playing and his generosity -- Liszt's precocity -- Liszt's reply to Louis Philippe -- Liszt Thalberg -- Lives of labor -- Longevity of musicians -- Manuscript for kettles -- Malibran's generosity -- Mara's revenge -- Mendelssohn composing for fun -- Mendelssohn's dislike of Meyerbeer -- Mendelssohn's kindness -- Mendelssohn at work -- Misdirected and repressed talent -- Modulations -- Moscheles' blunder -- Mozart's acknowledgment -- Musical and non-musical accent -- Musical criticism -- Musicial crooks -- Musical gratitude -- Music for the eye -- Music hath charms -- Music and madness -- Music at so much per note -- Music vs commerce -- Music vs conversation -- Napoleon outwitted by a songstres -- Nasal -- Nilsson and the Shah of Persia -- Not at first sight -- Not the geese that saved Rome -- Ole bull as a duelist -- Ole bull at Rouge et noir -- Old words to new tunes -- One kind of criticism -- Operatic sore throat -- Original tapestry -- Origin of the name Kreutzer Sonata -- One musical advancement -- Outspoken admiration -- Overfed composers -- Paganini's generous deed -- Paganini in court dress -- Paganini's method of study -- Patti's exactions -- Patti's vanity -- Peculiar English -- Personal appearance -- Playing like Zwei Gotts -- Playing on a shoe -- Pot boilers -- Prejudice -- Preserving identity -- Prima Donnas come high -- Prolific composers -- Proving identity -- Public criticism -- Rapid composition -- Rather a hard opponent to conquer -- Rec'd in full of apc -- Restoring an organ -- Retentive memories -- Richard Wagner and the number 13 -- Royal honors to a singer -- Royal musicians -- Rossini and the Italian scool -- Rossini's arrogance -- Rossini's hearing the impossible -- Rothschild's music -- Sarcasm -- Saving a fiddle -- Scherzo -- Schubert's Erl King -- Schubert's modesty -- Schubert's serenade -- Schumann's failure -- Schumann's madness -- Securing music under difficulties -- Shaking all over -- Slippers at a premium -- Some liberal musicians -- Sontag Malibran -- Sontag's revenge -- Southern passion -- Spohr as a horn player -- Stage censorship -- Stubborn composers -- That Patti Kiss -- The Bach revival -- The composer's debt to nature -- The deaf Beethoven -- The dear Saxon -- The discovery of a tenor -- The devil on two sticks -- The devil's trill -- The encore fiend -- The financial circumstances of the great composers -- The friends, Mozart and Haydn -- The greater the composer the greater the student -- The greatest musical prodigy -- The gregorian chant -- The Hallelujah chorus -- The harmonious blacksmith -- The Hebrew in music -- The heroic in music. |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML65 .G17 1905 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |