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SHERRATT & HUGHES Publishers to the Victoria University of Manchester Manchester: 27 St. Ann Street London: 65 Long Acre
WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR BY HENRY REECE AND OLIVER ELTON
To Dr. Hans Richter in Memory of his Friend and Admirer Arthur Johnstone
The Editors desire to express their thanks to the Proprietors of the _Manchester Guardian_ for their permission to reprint the articles contained in this volume.
They also wish to acknowledge the assistance they have received in compiling the memoir from the family of the late Mr. Arthur Johnstone and from his friends, and they are more particularly indebted to Professor Sidney Vantyn for the long correspondence he placed at their disposal.
The letters quoted were for the most part written to Mr. Oliver Elton.
=Chapter I.--Bach= The Genius of Bach 1 Mass in B minor ("Hohe Messe") 3 The "St. Matthew Passion" 5 A minor Concerto for two Violins 8
=Chapter II.--Beethoven= Symphony No. 5 (C minor) 11 Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") 13 Symphony No. 7 14 Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") 16 Symphony No. 2 18 "Missa Solennis" 20 "Fidelio" 21
=Chapter III.--Berlioz= "Symphonie Fantastique" 24 "La Damnation de Faust" 27 The Centenary Celebrations 29
=Chapter IV.--Liszt= "Faust" Symphony 33 Pianoforte Concerto in E flat 36
=Chapter V.--Wagner= Overture, "Faust in solitude" 39 The "Ring" at Covent Garden (1903) 41 The Bayreuth Festival 51 "Parsifal" 53 The "Ring" at Bayreuth (1904) 56
=Chapter VI.--Tchaïkovsky= Symphony No. 5 and other works 63 Symphony No. 4 67 Overture, "Romeo and Juliet" 69 Symphony No. 5 71 Symphony No. 6 ("Pathétique") 75
=Chapter VII.--Sir Edward Elgar= "King Olaf" 78 The "Enigma" Variations 81 Overture, "Cockaigne" 85 The "Dream of Gerontius," Birmingham Festival 89 " " Düsseldorf 92 " " Preliminary Article 95 " " Hallé Concerts, Manchester 98 "The Apostles," Birmingham Festival 104 " Preliminary Article 108 " Hallé Concerts, Manchester 111 Overture, "In the South" 116 The "Coronation Ode" 117
=Chapter VIII.--Richard Strauss= "Don Quixote," Rhenish Musical Festival at Düsseldorf 119 "Don Juan," Preliminary Article 122 " Hallé Concerts 124 "Till Eulenspiegel" 126 "Sehnsucht" 128 Strauss's conducting of Liszt's "Faust" Symphony, Lower Rhine Musical Festival, Düsseldorf 129 "Tod und Verklärung" 131 "Also sprach Zarathustra" 133 "Ein Heldenleben," Liverpool Orchestral Society 136 Quartet in C minor, for Piano and Strings 139