Modern Musicians by J Cuthbert Hadden. 1914. Suede-covered. 267 pp.

A lovely old treasure for music lovers.

With chapters on Modernity in Musical Composition; Composers (such as Saint-Saëns and Granville Bantock); Pianists (such as Paderewski and Backhaus); Singers (such as Melba and Plunkett Green); Violinists and 'Cellists (such as Ysaye and Pablo de Casals); and Conductors (such as Arthur Nikisch and Emil Mlynarski). With pasted-in sepia-coloured photographs.

First published 1913. This is the 2nd edition of 1914 published by TN Foulis, London & Edinburgh. Condition: Good for its age.

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