Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Music and Manners, Vol. 1 of 2: Personal Reminiscences and Sketches of Character
The child of musical parents, who taught me to sing before I could speak, and to play before I could spell, I have continually been brought into contact With musicians and music-lovers ever since the days of my early boyhood, and count amongst my dearest friends of the past and present several of the most distin guished votaries of the Divine Art. These facts must serve as my excuse for such cursory mention Of myself, in connection with eminent musical composers and executants, as occurs here and there in the course of these volumes, for the manifold shortcomings and demerits of which I humbly crave my readers' indulgence. W beatty-kingston. 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.
