Author: Hadden, J. Cuthbert.
Title: Modern Musicians: A Book for Players, Singers & Listeners.
Description: Boston/London & Edinburgh: Le Roy Phillips/T. N. Foulis, 1914. 1914. - 8vo, green cloth (bumped; spine faded with small stains & tiny tear to head; small stains to rear cover). [xi], 266 & [1] pp. & 8-page publisher's catalogue (light soiling to half-title & verso & to a few pages of text; tiny stains to rear endpaper). Sepia frontispiece & 20 sepia portraits of musicians tipped in on gray stock. Good.

Second edition.

This companion volume to Hadden's "Master Musicians" is described by him in his Preface as "simply some 'chapters' in intimate musical biography written in a popular style, and meant chiefly for popular reading." Hadden includes sections on composers, pianists, singers, violinists and cellists, and conductors. Good .

Keywords: MUSIC; BIOGRAPHY; ILLUSTRATED; TIPPED-IN PLATES; COMPOSERS; PIANISTS; SINGERS; VIOLINISTS; CELLISTS; CONDUCTORS.

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