Memories of a Musical Life

About this eBook

Author

Mason, William, 1829-1908

Credits

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Musicians -- United States -- Biography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

35520

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35520

Release Date

March 8, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MEMORIES OF A MUSICAL LIFE — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — MEMORIES OF A MUSICAL LIFE
2. 2.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
3. 3.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
4. 4.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
5. 5.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
6. 6.MUSIC IN AMERICA TO-DAY
7. 7.APPENDIX — Part I EARLY LIFE OF LOWELL MASON — Part II LISZT'S LETTERS
8. 8.INDEX
9. 9.FOOTNOTES:

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