Celebrated Pianists of the Past and Present: A Collection of One Hundred and Thirty-Nine Biographies, With Portraits (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Celebrated Pianists of the Past and Present: A Collection of One Hundred and Thirty-Nine Biographies, With PortraitsIt is the intention of the American edition of this work to present to its readers those pianists, resident in America, who are not in the original edition.The difficulty of the task of selection in the case of living pianists who have won eminence - a class which is necessarily limited - may be readily understood. This difficulty has been increased by the fact that some to whom we have written have failed to respond. Some whose local reputation is great, have not as yet made an impression on national musical life sufficiently extended to be included.The effort has been made, however, to present sketches of all whose widespread reputation renders their personality interesting to the musical public.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.