From Handel to Hallé: Biographical Sketches (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from From Handel to Hallé: Biographical Sketches

In one respect I believe the reader will be satisfied that is, the manner ih which the publisher has done his work. There is an unpublished letter and a musical ms. Of Beethoven exactly reproduced. The portraits have been engraved from the most reliable sources, and among others I think that the portrait of Madame l'atti, for instance, at the age of seven years, has never been published; yet the child's face is so entirely that of the great prima donna, that it cannot for one moment be mistaken. And now let me hope that with the art and help of others, my feeble essay may find a chance to please you.

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Excerpt from From Handel to Hallé: Biographical Sketches

The very kind way in which public and press have received my last book, "From Mozart to Mario," encourages me to hope that similar indulgence may be extended to the present effort. There are a few essays in this volume which have been already published in a magazine, others are new; two however, for which I need not ask any leniency, are autobiographies, and when I mention the eminent names of Professor Huxley and Professor Herkomer, I think it will be sufficiently clear that if I do not especially recommend them, it is because the interest which they cannot fail to awaken renders leniency unnecessary.

That scientific giant. Professor Huxley, everybody knows, need only put his pen to paper to command general attention, while the autobiography of Professor Herkomer is the most straightforward, and in its simple honesty, one of the most remarkable products of the kind, I ever remember having seen in print.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.