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STORY-LIVES
OF
GREAT MUSICIANS
BY
FRANCIS JAMESON ROWBOTHAM
AUTHOR OF
'STORY-LIVES OF GREAT AUTHORS,' 'TALES FROM PLUTARCH,' ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
TO
THE MEMORY OF
FREDERICK WESTLAKE, R.A.M.
PREFACE
Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, thewriter has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form afew of the facts and incidents in the lives of some great musicians.It is hoped that young readers—and especially those to whom music isa subject of study—will take a greater interest in some of themasterpieces of composition when they have learnt something about thecomposers themselves, and the circumstances under which they wrote.
The author desires to express his acknowledgments for the assistancehe has derived from the following works:
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians; Bitter's Life ofSebastian Bach (translated by J.E. Kay-Shuttleworth); Rockstro'sLife of George Frederick Handel; Williams's Handel in 'The MasterMusicians'; Townsend's Haydn in 'The Great Musicians'; Jahn's W.A.Mozart (translated by P.D. Townsend); Schindler's Life ofBeethoven; Nohl's Life of Beethoven; von Hellborn's FranzSchubert (translated by A.D. Coleridge); Benedict's Sketch of theLife and Works of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; Hensel's TheMendelssohn Family; Hiller's Mendelssohn: Letters andRecollections; Devrient's Recollections of F.M. Bartholdy(translated by C.N. Macfarren).