Among the Great Masters of Music: Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians

Music is the link between spiritual and sensual life.--Beethoven. And while we hear The tides of Music's golden sea Setting toward eternity, Uplifted high in heart and hope are we. --Tennyson. Music in the best sense has little need of novelty, on the contrary, the older it is, the more one is accustomed to it, the greater is the effect it produces.--Goethe. Music is a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that.--Carlyle. CONTENTS. St. Cecilia Palestrina Lulli Stradivarius Tartini Bach Handel Gluck Mozart Linley Haydn Weber Beethoven Schubert Rouget de Lisle Paganini Mendelssohn Chopin Meyerbeer Wagner Liszt