The Great Tone Poets: Being Short Memoirs of the Greater Musical Composers

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Preface

Two years ago I was invited to contribute to the "Et Cetera" Magazine, a series of Articles on the great Composers, to be written in a style that would interest the general reader, as well as the musician. Some of this series duly appeared; and this would have been their first and last appearance, had I not, upon the decease of the Magazine, received many requests from teachers of music to complete and re-publish the series.

Those articles that have appeared in the Magazine have been revised, and in some parts re-written. New ones have been added; while to each biography has been af^ed a table with the dates of the principal incidents in the composer's life, for the use of those ensased in examinations.

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In the course of my task I have ' had recoiu'ge to^ and made extracts from, many works, all of wl]^ch I think I have acknowledged, but to the authors of which I here desire to express my indebtedness.

F. CEOWEST.

U^ovemler^ 1874.

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