[Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by William James Henderson]@TWC D-Link bookSome Forerunners of Italian Opera CHAPTER XV 14/31
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$1.50 net; by mail, $1.62. It commences with the musician's childhood, his fears, fancies, and troubles, and his almost uncanny musical sense.
He plays before the Grand Duke at seven, but he is destined for greater things.
An idol of the hour, in some ways suggesting Richard Strauss, tries in vain to wreck his faith in his career.
Early love episodes follow, and after a dramatic climax, the hero, like Wagner, has to fly, a hopeful exile. "As big, as elemental, as original as though the art of fiction began today."-- _Springfield Republican._ "The most momentous novel that has come to us from France, or from any other European country, in a decade....
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