Stories behind the world's great music,
- New York, Garden City publishing co., inc. [1940]
- 2 p.l., vii-xiv, 3-373 p. illus. (music) 21 cm.
1. Some ancient history -- 2. The private life of Johann Sebastian Bach -- 3. Battling Handel and his victories -- 4. Pluck and Gluck -- 5. Papa Haydn's little jokes -- 6. Mozart writes his own Requiem -- 7. Beethoven learns about people -- 8. Weber and the fields of fantasy -- 9. Schubert gets his music paper -- 10. The Schumann love story -- 11. Chopin's pianistic romances -- 12. The fortunes of Felix Mendelssohn -- 13. Wagner, women, and song -- 14. The Liszt cooperative program -- 15. Verdi's mass production -- 16. So this is Brahms -- 17. The troubles of Tschaikowsky -- 18. Odds and ends -- 19. Some world-famous tunes -- 20. Songs of the British isles -- 21. Songs of Germany, France, and Italy -- 22. Famous American songs.