Author: Arnold Johann Gantvoort

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9781330262979

Excerpt from Familiar Talks on the History of Music In these days of extensive general education, some knowledge of important events in the history of the development of musical art, and some acquaintance with the lives of our greatest musical personages, have become almost indispensable. The desire for a concise work which would contain considerable information on this subject, presented in a manner and in language easily understood, has been expressed to me by many hundreds of music students, musical amateurs and members of musical clubs. In response to this demand, the present volume, which is the outgrowth of more than twenty years of lecture-work, was written. The notes containing the data for this lecture-work were made during a long period of musical study and musical activity, and their import has so completely become a part of my composite knowledge on the subject, that I find myself unable to give credit to any individual historical writer whose works may have been consulted. Sincere thanks are therefore hereby extended to all who have written on this subject from whom information may have been gathered. If a perusal of this volume shall succeed in creating in the minds of some of its readers a desire for further information about the history of that far-reaching art, which accompanies us from the cradle to the grave, I shall not deem my labors to have been in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.