LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LOWELL MASON'S CAREER

FIRST BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY IN AMERICA

MUSICAL CONVENTIONS

EARLY MUSICAL TRAINING

WEBSTER AND CLAY

FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE

LEOPOLD DE MEYER

"FATHER HEINRICH"

AN EMBARRASSING EXPERIENCE

MEETING WITH MEYERBEER

LISZT'S FEAT OF MEMORY

FIRST MEETING WITH LISZT

ARRIVAL AT LEIPSIC

MOSCHELES, BEETHOVEN, AND CHOPIN

THE INTIMACY OF MOSCHELES AND MENDELSSOHN

SCHUMANN

SCHUMANN'S "SYMPHONY NO. 1, B FLAT"

SCHUMANN'S ABSENT-MINDEDNESS

MORITZ HAUPTMANN

A VISIT TO WAGNER.

WAGNER ON MENDELSSOHN AND BEETHOVEN

A WAGNER AUTOGRAPH

MOSCHELES

JOSEPH JOACHIM

SCHUMANN'S "CONCERTO IN A MINOR"

CARL MAYER

DREYSCHOCK

PRINCE DE ROHAN'S DINNER

CHOPIN, HENSELT, AND THALBERG

ANTON SCHINDLER, "AMI DE BEETHOVEN"

SCHINDLER AND SCHNYDER VON WARTENSEE

FIRST LONDON CONCERT

ACCEPTED BY LISZT

THE ALTENBURG

HOW LISZT TAUGHT

"PLAY IT LIKE THIS"

LISZT IN 1854

HIS FASCINATION

LISZT'S INDIGNATION

OBJECTS TO MY EYE-GLASSES

A MUSICAL BREAKFAST

LISZT'S PLAYING

LISZT AND PIXIS

LISZT CONDUCTING

LISZT'S SYMPHONIC POEMS—REHEARSING "TASSO"

EXTRACTS FROM A DIARY

OPPORTUNITIES

BRAHMS IN 1853

NERVOUS BEFORE LISZT

DOZING WHILE LISZT PLAYED

"LOHENGRIN" FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LEIPSIC

IN STUTTGART—HOTEL MARQUAND

THE SCHUMANN "FEIER" IN BONN, 1880

BRAHMS'S PIANOFORTE-PLAYING

A HISTORICAL ERROR CORRECTED

MORE ABOUT LISZT'S WONDERFUL SIGHT-READING

LISZT'S MOMENTS OF CONTRITION

PETER CORNELIUS

SOME FAMOUS VIOLINISTS

REMENYI

SOME DISTINGUISHED OPERA-SINGERS

HENRIETTE SONTAG

JOHANNA WAGNER

MME. DE LA GRANGE

"DER VEREIN DER MURLS"

THE WAGNER CAUSE IN WEIMAR

RAFF IN WEIMAR

DR. ADOLF BERNHARD MARX

BERLIOZ IN WEIMAR

ENTERTAINING LISZT'S "YOUNG BEETHOVEN"

RUBINSTEIN'S OPPOSITION TO WAGNER

TOURING THE COUNTRY

"YANKEE DOODLE" AND "OLD HUNDRED"

SETTLING DOWN TO TEACH

THEODORE THOMAS AT TWENTY

THOMAS AS CONDUCTOR

KARL KLAUSER, MUSICAL DIRECTOR AT MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL

LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK

PROPAGANDA FOR SCHUMANN'S MUSIC

SIGISMOND THALBERG

PEDAL AND PEDAL SIGNS—WHY NOT DISPENSE WITH THE LATTER?

RUBINSTEIN AND THE AUTOGRAPH-HUNTER

EVOLUTION IN MUSICAL IDEAS BEETHOVEN PIANOFORTE RECITALS

RUBINSTEIN'S FAVORITE SEAT AT A PIANOFORTE RECITAL

BACH'S "TRIPLE CONCERTO" AND "LES AGRÉMENTS"

A SIGNIFICANT AUTOGRAPH FROM RUBINSTEIN

RUBINSTEIN, PADEREWSKI, AND "YANKEE DOODLE"

MEETINGS WITH VON BÜLOW

EDVARD GRIEG

RATES OF TEMPO—THE PRESENT TIME COMPARED WITH FIFTY YEARS AGO

ELECTROCUTING CHOPIN

TEMPO RUBATO

UNUSUAL PUPILS—TRANSPOSING—POSITIVE AND RELATIVE PITCH

APPLEDORE, ISLES OF SHOALS

Part I EARLY LIFE OF LOWELL MASON

Part II LISZT'S LETTERS