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A number of obvious typographical errors have been correctedin this text, while archaic spelling has been maintained.For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document.


CHOPIN
AND
OTHER MUSICAL ESSAYS


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CHOPIN
AND
OTHER MUSICAL ESSAYS





BY
HENRY T. FINCK
AUTHOR OF "ROMANTIC LOVE AND PERSONAL BEAUTY"





NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1894





Copyright, 1889, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS




TROW'S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.








RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO
MRS. JEANNETTE M. THURBER





CONTENTS

  PAGE
I.Chopin, the Greatest Genius of the Pianoforte,1
II.How Composers Work,59
III.Schumann, as Mirrored in His Letters,111
IV.Music and Morals,141
V.Italian and German Vocal Styles,183
VI.German Opera in New York,233





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CHOPINToC
THE GREATEST GENIUS OF THE PIANOFORTE

Leipsic, the centre of the world's music trade, exports about onehundred thousand dollars' worth of music to America every year. I donot know how much of this sum is to be placed to the account ofChopin, but a leading music dealer in New York told me that he soldthree times as many of Ch                        
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