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Henry Edwards

Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1H. Sutherland Edwards Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 CHAPTER I PARIS: A GENERAL GLANCE “PARIS,” said Heinrich Heine, “is not simply the capital of France, but of the whole civilised world, and the re...

Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 2H. Sutherland Edwards Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 2 CHAPTER I. STREET CHARACTERS The Cocher – The Bus-driver – The Private Coachman – The Hackney Coachman – The Public Writer – The Flower-girl – The...

The Great Musicians: Rossini and His SchoolHenry Sutherland Edwards The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School CHAPTER I. ROSSINI'S CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH A CONTEMPORARY of Cimarosa and of Paisiello, his predecessors, but not, except at the very outset of his career, his models, and of Donizetti, B...

History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present TimeHISTORY OF THE OPERACHAPTER I. PREFACE, PRELUDE, PROLOGUE, INTRODUCTION, OVERTURE, ETC. – THE ORIGIN OF THE OPERA IN ITALY, AND ITS INTRODUCTION INTO GERMANY. – ITS HISTORY IN EUROPE; DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTION...

The Life of RossiniH. Sutherland Edwards The Life of Rossini INTRODUCTION ROSSINI was a very celebrated man fifty years ago. Forty-seven years ago he had already finished his Italian career. “Semiramide,” the last opera he composed for Italy, was produced in 1823; and that same year the Abbé Carp...