Musicians of To-day

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Musicians of To-day is by Romain Rolland and is translated by Mary Blaiklock. The contents list Berlioz, Wagner, Camille Saint-Saëns, Vincent d'Indy, Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf and Don Lorenzo Perosi. The introduction says it is perhaps fitting that the series of volumes comprising The Musician's Bookshelf should be inaugurated by the present collection of essays.

The text says that Berlioz suffered too, for he loved her still and was torn with pity, which it calls the most painful of all emotions. The text says that Wolf, in a letter to Faisst, described himself as a quiet, sedate, and silent man who wished more and more to be alone, and that in the autumn of 1898 Wolf was taken to an asylum at Vienna.

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Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature. A committed pacifist and humanist, he is remembered for the epic novel cycle Jean-Christophe and for his outspoken opposition to the nationalism of the First World War.