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CONTENTS.
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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