Chopin : the Man and His Music Part 17

Chopin Ein Gedenkblatt, by August Spanuth, New York Staats-Zeitung, October 15, 1899.

The Pianoforte Sonata, by J. B. Shedlock, London, Methuen & Co.

A History of Pianoforte Playing and Pianoforte Literature, by C. F. Weitzmann, translated by Dr. Th. Baker. New York, G.

Schirmer.

Der Letze Virtuoso, by C. F. Weitzmann. Leipzig, Kahnt.

Chopin--and Some Others, in London Musical News, October 14, 1899.

Chopin, in A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players, by Oscar Bie. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.

Chopin, in Rubinstein's Die Meister des Klaviers. New York, Schuberth.

Chopin, in Berliner Tageblatt, by Dr. Leopold Schmidt.

Chopin Juzgada por Schumann, in Gaceta Musical, City of Mexico.

The Chopin Rubato and so-called Chopin Fingering, by John Kautz, in The Musical Record, Boston, 1898.

Franz Liszt, by Lina Ramann. Breitkopf & Hartel.

Preface to Mikuli Edition by Carl Mikuli.

The AEsthetics of Pianoforte Playing, by Adolf Kullak. New York, G. Schirmer.

Chopin und die Frauen, by Eugen Isolani. Berliner Courier, October 17, 1899.

Chopin, by W. J. Henderson in The New York Times, October 29, 1899.

A Note on Chopin, by L. A. Corbeille, and Chopin, An Irresponsibility, by "Israfel," in The Dome, October, 1899, London, Unicorn Press.

Chopin and the Romantics, by John F. Runciman in The Sat.u.r.day Review (London), February 10,1900.

Chopiniana: in the February, 1900, issue of the London Monthly Musical Record, including some new letters of Chopin's.

La maladie de Chopin (d'apres des doc.u.ments inedits), par Cabanes. Chronique medicale, Paris, 1899, vi., No. 21, 673-685.

Also recollections in letters and diaries of Moscheles, Hiller, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Henselt, Schumann, Rubinstein, Mathias, Legouve, Tarnowski, Grenier and others.

The author begs to acknowledge the kind suggestions and a.s.sistance of Rafael Joseffy, Vladimir de Pachmann, Moriz Rosenthal, Jaraslow de Zielinski, Edwin W. Morse, Edward E.

Ziegler and Ignace Jan Paderewski.

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