Anecdotes of Great Musicians/Table of Contents

3402554Anecdotes of Great Musicians — Table of ContentsWilley Francis Gates


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NO. PAGE
88. A Basso's Wit, 86
254. A Bold Pupil, 249
40. A Boy's Memory, 43
211. A Burial Place Denied, 207
291. A Charitable Trio, 290
229. A Comical Revenge, 226
30. A Concert Preacher, 35
232. A Compliment from Haydn, 228
96. A Composer's Chagrin, 92
206. A Costly Fiddle, 204
19. A Critical Composition, 26
190. A Deserved Chastisement, 187
144. A Double Dose of Brahms, 145
265. A Dressing-room War, 260
63. A Fiddler's Trick, 64
98. A Frightened Desdemona, 95
224. A Great German Songstress, 220
183. A Great Thief, 180
153. A Gentle Critic, 154
227. A Gory Drumstick, 223
135. A Great Quartet, 135
75. A Hatful of Pearls, 74
186. A Kind Act, 185
249. A Little Trick of Paganini's, 245
197. A Long Encore Number, 195
37. A Musical Priest, 41
217. A Musical Tragedy, 213
193. A Narrow Escape, 190
233. A Particular Prima Donna, 229
114. A Patient Pupil, 111
72. A Patti Reception that She Didn't Receive, 72
105. A Peculiar Genius, 101
288. A Peculiar Visiting Card, 285
260. A Prima Donna's Pets, 255
50. A Queen's Regard for her Music Teacher, 53
92. A Second Napoleon, 89
146. A Sharp Rejoinder, 147
93. A Singer's Sense, 90
225. A Sight for the Boys, 222
61. A Song for Forty, 62
13. A Sudden Cure, 21
10. A Test of Precocity, 18
194. A Pyrotechnic Violoncello, 191
142. A Violin for Eighteen Pence, 143
52. A Witty Songstress, 55
117. Absent Minded, 115
159. An Absent-minded Conductor, 159
36. An Army, a Cow, and a Prima Donna, 40
51. An Earnest Student, 54
78. An Episode in the Life of an Artist, 76
257. An Erratic Prima Donna, 252
178. An Even Distribution of Honors, 176
110. An Eventful Career, 106
215. An Exciting Musical Duel, 211
58. An Ignorant Tenor, 59
157. An Interrupted Concert, 157
216. An Interrupted Strain, 213
172. An Interrupted Opera, 170
222. An Obese Basso, 219
256. An Opera Sacrificed, 251
25. An Uncringing Reply, 31
46. An Unorthodox Creed, 48
22. An Untalented Royal Pupil, 28
69. Another Way, 69
42. Artistic Aversion to Empty Honors, 45
266. Aristocratic Patronage—Haydn's Farewell, 261
243. Arrested for Treason, 238
154. Art Before Business, 155
280. Artistic Pride, 276
207. Bach's Great Works. How Enjoyed by Some, 204
6. Balfe's Strange Room Mate, 14
44. Baton Waving. Lully Losing a Limb, 46
202. Beethoven a la Cupid, 199
271. Beethoven, Brain-owner, 267
150. Beethoven's First Triumph, 151
292. Beethoven's Forgetfulness, 291
281. Beethoven's Friends, 276
218. Beethoven's Gratitude, 215
34. Beethoven's Kiss, 39
173. Beethoven Punished, 171
7. Berlioz and Paganini, 15
156. Bülow's Bits, 156
231. But One Seat Left, 228
235. Campanini as a Soldier, 231
28. Catalani and Goethe, 33
138. Cherubini as a Revolutionary Fiddler, 139
219. Choleric Händel, 216
125. Chopin's Technic, 125
101. Clementi's Economy, 98
113. Clerical Wit, 110
139. Conscientious Acting and Singing, 140
158. Coöperative Composition, 158
160. Costly Admiration, 159
297. Cuzzoni—Bordoni, 295
251. Delayed Appreciation, 247
5. Discovering a Nightingale, 13
85. Disposing of an Audience, 84
79. Earning a Violin Easily, 78
198. "Englyshe Meetre," 195
264. Fallible, 259
115. Field Fooled, 113
49. Forewarned is Forearmed, 51
277. Fortunes in Fiddles, 272
167. French Wit, 165
180. Friends, 178
131. From Humble Origin to Wealth and Fame, 131
276. Fugues and Chess, 272
188. Fun on the Stage, 186
132. Gallant Haydn, 133
247. Genius Discovered by Punishment, 243
4. Glimpses of Cherubini, 12
296. Gluck—Piccinni, 294
262. Goat Hair for Hero Worshipers, 257
24. Good English in Song, 29
176. Gounod's Faust, 173
228. Great Musical Memories, 224
295. Händel—Buononcini, 293
151. Händel's Duel, 152
74. Händel's Escape, 74
23. Händel's Persuasiveness, 29
87. Händel's Successful Scheme, 85
141. Händel's Youth, 142
94. Haydn's Noble English Pupil, 91
286. Haydn's Last Appearance, 283
181. Haydn's Reception by Prince Esterhazy, 178
18. He Didn't Purchase, 25
39. High Art, 43
8. History Repeats Itself, 16
274. Honest Opinions, 269
82. How Berlioz Fooled the Critics, 80
122. How Paganini Secured his Favorite Fiddle, 121
68. How to Make a Singer Sing, 68
60. How to Secure a Successful Début, 61
285. Humor in Composition, 280
191. Il Trovatore, 188
169. Imagination a Factor in Hearing Music, 167
200. Impositions on Musicians, 197
128. In Bülow's Class-Room, 128
11. Irish Enthusiasm, 19
54. Jealousy in the Family, 56
270. Jenny Lind's Generosity, 266
104. Keeping at It, 101
20. Keep in with the Accompanist, 27
95. Lablache and Tom Thumb, 92
67. Leoncavallo's Whimsical Opinion of his "Clowns," 67
149. Lind's First Engagement, 150
242. Liszt as an Advertiser, 238
250. Liszt's Completion of the Beethoven Monument, 246
123. Liszt on Mendelssohn, 122
130. Liszt's Playing and his Generosity, 130
103. Liszt's Precocity, 99
269. Liszt's Reply to Louis Philippe, 265
299. Liszt—Thalberg, 298
134. Lives of Labor, 134
241. Longevity of Musicians, 235
71. Manuscript for Kettles, 71
81. Malibran's Generosity, 79
124. Mara's Revenge, 124
76. Mendelssohn Composing for Fun, 75
35. Mendelssohn's Dislike of Meyerbeer, 39
234. Mendelssohn's Kindness, 230
143. Mendelssohn at Work, 144
195. Misdirected and Repressed Talent, 192
109. Modulations, 105
53. Moscheles' Blunder, 55
65. Mozart's Acknowledgment 66
170. Musical and Non-Musical Accent, 168
38. Musical Criticism, 42
279. Musical Cooks, 275
56. Musical Gratitude, 57
283. Music for the Eye, 279
83. Music Hath Charms, 81
43. Music and Madness, 46
102. Music at So Much per Note, 99
192. Music vs. Commerce, 189
220. Music vs. Conversation 217
111. Napoleon Outwitted by a Songtress, 108
253. Nasal, 249
108. Nilsson and the Shah of Persia, 103
213. Not at First Sight, 210
239. Not the Geese that Saved Rome, 234
17. Ole Bull as a Duelist, 25
14. Ole Bull at "Rouge-et-Noir," 22
89. Old Words to New Tunes, 87
278. One Kind of Criticism, 274
66. Operatic Sore Throat, 66
209. Original Tapestry, 206
289. Origin of the Name "Kreutzer Sonata," 286
273. Our Musical Advancement, 268
15. Outspoken Admiration, 23
252. Overfed Composers, 248
152. Paganini's Generous Deed, 153
226. Paganini in Court Dress, 222
261. Paganini's Method of Study, 256
177. Patti, Madame, 174
100. Patti's Vanity, 97
208. Peculiar English, 205
64. Personal Appearance, 64
12. Playing like "Zwei Gotts," 21
86. Playing on a Shoe, 85
175. Pot-boilers, 172
55. Prejudice, 56
223. Preserving Identity, 220
45. Prima Donnas Come High, 48
282. Prolific Composers, 278
182. Proving Identity, 179
187. Public Criticism, 185
179. Rapid Composition, 176
27. Rather a Hard Opponent to Conquer, 33
136. Rec'd in Full of A/c, 137
214. Restoring an Organ, 210
99. Retentive Memories, 96
248. Richard Wagner and the Number "13," 244
163. Royal Honors to a Singer, 162
290. Royal Musicians, 286
133. Rossini and the Italian School, 133
293. Rossini's Arrogance, 291
70. Rossini Hearing the Impossible, 70
244. Rothschild's Music, 240
259. Sarcasm, 254
116. Saving a Fiddle, 114
230. Scherzo, 227
162. Schubert's "Erl-King," 161
272. Schubert's Modesty, 268
80. Schubert's Serenade, 78
246. Schumann's Failure, 242
284. Schumann's Madness, 279
127. Securing Music under Difficulties, 127
106. Shaking all Over, 102
41. Slippers at a Premium, 44
121. Some Liberal Musicians, 120
298. Sontag—Malibran, 297
91. Sontag's Revenge, 88
26. Southern Passion, 32
126. Spohr as a Horn Player, 126
263. Stage Censorship, 258
112. Stubborn Composers, 109
240. That Patti Kiss, 235
2. The Bach Revival, 10
90. The Composer's Debt to Nature, 88
164. The Deaf Beethoven, 163
155. The "Dear Saxon," 155
196. The Discovery of a Tenor, 193
199. "The Devil on Two Sticks," 197
47. The Devil's Trill, 49
73. The Encore Fiend, 73
300. The Financial Circumstances of the Great Composers, 300
97. The Friends, Mozart and Haydn, 93
57. The Greater the Composer the Greater the Student, 58
9. The Greatest Musical Prodigy, 17
1. The Gregorian Chant, 9
201. The Hallelujah Chorus, 199
119. The "Harmonious Blacksmith," 117
267. The Hebrew in Music, 263
287. The Heroic in Music, 283
165. The History of a Violin, 163
210. The Manual Labor of Composition, 207
275. The Modern Tendency, 271
29. The Music but Not the Face, 35
107. The "Ox" Minuet, 103
140. The Peculiarities of Genius, 141
118. The Prima Donna of the Eighteenth Century, 116
245. The “Prison Josephs," 241
77. The Right Kind of a Patron, 76
268. The Story of Mozart's Requiem, 264
62. The Temple Organ, 63
189. The Thirty-three Variations, 187
120. The Ups and Downs of a Singer's Life, 118
221. The World's Reward to Genius, 217
21. The Youthful Beethoven's Trick on a Singer, 27
185. Their Favorite Surroundings for Composition, 182
59. Three Classes of Players, 60
294. To a Pauper's Grave, 292
236. To Make a Player Play, 231
168. Too Literal, 166
31. Traveling in State, 36
237. True Kindliness, 232
32. Tuning Up, 37
147. Two Kinds of Bills, 147
145. Unfailing Sight Reading an Impossibility, 146
48. Unlucky Manuscripts, 50
174. Violin Collectors, 172
238. Viotti's Independence, 233
129. Viotti's Tin Fiddle, 129
33. Voice Against Trumpet, 38
148. Von Bülow as a Political Speaker, 149
184. Von Bülow's Memory, 182
212. Von Bülow's Peculiarities, 209
171. Von Weber to a Bawling Choir, 169
166. "Vorts" vs. Music, 164
204. Vox Populi, 201
255. Wagner's Activity, 250
203. Wagner and the Beggars, 200
84. Wagner's Melodies and Chords, 83
137. Wagner's Working Costume, 137
205. What's in a Name, 202
258. When They Began, 253
16. Whims of Composers, 24
3. Why We Should Sing, 11
161. Wine and Music, 160