{"product_id":"2940013395589","title":"Memoirs of a Musical Life [With Music Scores and Photos]","description":"An autobiography of William Mason, an American composer.\u003cbr\u003eIt includes tens of music scores, an active table of contents, an active index and footnotes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly Days in New England 3\u003cbr\u003e     Lowell Mason's Career 7\u003cbr\u003e     First Beethoven Symphony in America 8\u003cbr\u003e     Musical Conventions 9\u003cbr\u003e     Early Musical Training 10\u003cbr\u003e     Webster and Clay 11\u003cbr\u003e     First Public Appearance 18\u003cbr\u003e     Leopold de Meyer 19\u003cbr\u003e     \"Father Heinrich\" 22\u003cbr\u003e     An Embarrassing Experience 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStudent Life Abroad 27\u003cbr\u003e     Meeting with Meyerbeer 28\u003cbr\u003e     Liszt's Feat of Memory 31\u003cbr\u003e     First Meeting with Liszt 33\u003cbr\u003e     Arrival at Leipsic 34\u003cbr\u003e     Moscheles, Beethoven, and Chopin 36\u003cbr\u003e     The Intimacy of Moscheles and Mendelssohn 37\u003cbr\u003e     Schumann 38\u003cbr\u003e     Schumann's \"Symphony No. 1, B Flat\" 39\u003cbr\u003e     Schumann's Absent-mindedness 42\u003cbr\u003e     Moritz Hauptmann 44\u003cbr\u003e     A Visit to Wagner 48\u003cbr\u003e     Wagner on Mendelssohn and Beethoven 51\u003cbr\u003e     A Wagner Autograph 55\u003cbr\u003e     Moscheles 57\u003cbr\u003e     Joseph Joachim 62\u003cbr\u003e     Schumann's \"Concerto in A Minor\" 63\u003cbr\u003e     Carl Mayer 65\u003cbr\u003e     Dreyschock 66\u003cbr\u003e     Prince de Rohan's Dinner 71\u003cbr\u003e     Chopin, Henselt, and Thalberg 75\u003cbr\u003e     Anton Schindler, \"Ami de Beethoven\" 79\u003cbr\u003e     Schindler and Schnyder von Wartensee 82\u003cbr\u003e     First London Concert 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith Liszt in Weimar 86\u003cbr\u003e     Accepted by Liszt 88\u003cbr\u003e     The Altenburg 93\u003cbr\u003e     How Liszt Taught 97\u003cbr\u003e     \"Play It Like This\" 99\u003cbr\u003e     Liszt in 1854 101\u003cbr\u003e     His Fascination 102\u003cbr\u003e     Liszt's Indignation 103\u003cbr\u003e     Objects to my Eye-glasses 106\u003cbr\u003e     A Musical Breakfast 108\u003cbr\u003e     Liszt's Playing 110\u003cbr\u003e     Liszt and Pixis 117\u003cbr\u003e     Liszt Conducting 119\u003cbr\u003e     Liszt's Symphonic Poems—Rehearsing \"Tasso\" 121\u003cbr\u003e     Extracts from a Diary 122\u003cbr\u003e     Opportunities 126\u003cbr\u003e     Brahms in 1853 127\u003cbr\u003e     Nervous before Liszt 128\u003cbr\u003e     Dozing while Liszt Played 129\u003cbr\u003e     \"Lohengrin\" for the First Time in Leipsic 132\u003cbr\u003e     In Stuttgart—Hotel Marquand 135\u003cbr\u003e     The Schumann \"Feier\" in Bonn, 1880 136\u003cbr\u003e     Brahms's Pianoforte-playing 137\u003cbr\u003e     A Historical Error Corrected 141\u003cbr\u003e     More about Liszt's Wonderful Sight-reading 142\u003cbr\u003e     Liszt's Moments of Contrition 144\u003cbr\u003e     Peter Cornelius 145\u003cbr\u003e     Some Famous Violinists 147\u003cbr\u003e     Remenyi 151\u003cbr\u003e     Some Distinguished Opera-singers 153\u003cbr\u003e     Henriette Sontag 154\u003cbr\u003e     Johanna Wagner 156\u003cbr\u003e     Mme. de la Grange 157\u003cbr\u003e     \"Der Verein der Murls\" 158\u003cbr\u003e     The Wagner Cause in Weimar 159\u003cbr\u003e     Raff in Weimar 161\u003cbr\u003e     Dr. Adolf Bernhard Marx 165\u003cbr\u003e     Berlioz in Weimar 168\u003cbr\u003e     Entertaining Liszt's \"Young Beethoven\" 171\u003cbr\u003e     Rubinstein's Opposition to Wagner 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt Work in America 183\u003cbr\u003e     Touring the Country 184\u003cbr\u003e     \"Yankee Doodle\" and \"Old Hundred\" 187\u003cbr\u003e     Settling down to Teach 191\u003cbr\u003e     Theodore Thomas at Twenty 195\u003cbr\u003e     Thomas as Conductor 197\u003cbr\u003e     Karl Klauser, Musical Director at Miss Porter's School 202\u003cbr\u003e     Louis Moreau Gottschalk 205\u003cbr\u003e     Propaganda for Schumann's Music 209\u003cbr\u003e     Sigismond Thalberg 210\u003cbr\u003e     Pedal and Pedal Signs—Why not Dispense with the Latter? 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