TO THE MANY KIND FRIENDS WHOSE SYMPATHY HAS HELPED ME DURING THE WRITING OF THESE VOLUMES, THEY ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED The biographical materials from which I have written the following Life of Brahms have, excepting in the few instances indicated in footnotes, been gathered by me, at first hand, chiefly in the course of several Continental journeys, the first of which was undertaken in the summer of 1902. Dates of concerts throughout the volumes have been authenticated by reference to original programmes or contemporary journals
TO THE MANY KIND FRIENDS WHOSE SYMPATHY HAS HELPED ME DURING THE WRITING OF THESE VOLUMES, THEY ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED The biographical materials from which I have written the following Life of Brahms have, excepting in the few instances indicated in footnotes, been gathered by me, at first hand, chiefly in the course of several Continental journeys, the first of which was undertaken in the summer of 1902. Dates of concerts throughout the volumes have been authenticated by reference to original programmes or contemporary journals