"Republished from ... newspapers and magazines."--Preface.; Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh : Adam & Charles Black, 1880.; "This edition first published 1880, This digitally printed version 2009"--Title page verso.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Thayer's Beethoven --; Chopin --; Foreign schools of music --; Arthur Schopenhauer --; Richard Wagner and his "Ring of the Niblung" --; The Wagner festival at Baireuth --; The French operas: 1. Bizet's "Carmen". 2. Gounod's "Polyeucte". 3. Massenet's "Roi de Lahore" --; The chances of English opera.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Chopin, Frédéric, -- 1810-1849.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, -- 1788-1860.
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, -- 1817-1897. -- Ludwig van Beethoven's leben.