Henry Theophilus Finck: 5 books

2 works of Henry Theophilus Finck American music critic, a leading promoter in the United States of Richard Wagner and his musical theories (1854-1926) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Henry Theophilus Finck. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work...

Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck,an American music critic, a leading promoter in the United States of Richard Wagner and his musical theories.He attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, of which he wrote accounts for newspapers and magazines. The Harris fellowship from Harvard...

Chopin's reputation has been constantly growing, and yet many of his deepest and most poetic compositions are almost unknown to amateurs, not to speak of the public at large. A few of his least characteristic pieces are heard in every parlor, generally in a wofully mutilated condition, but some of...

Reference is made to a custom prevalent in northern India of employing the family barber to select the boys and girls to be married, it being considered too trivial and humiliating an act for the parents to attend to. In pronouncing such a custom ludicrous and outrageous we must not forget that not...