Masters Of English Music Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Masters of English Music The aim of this Series is to place on record the chief facts and incidents in the careers of the greatest living composers, and to sketch the respective ten dencies and the distinguishing features of their work. It is intended to devote a volume to the musicians of each country, and, so far as practicable, to obtain all biografihical data from the composers themselves. In the present volume this plan has been followed exclu sively. The author wishes to acknowledge the assist ance afiorded him by Messrs. N ovello, owell, Boosey, and Cramer, in kindly providing him with the full scores, 6a, of the various works for purposes. 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.