Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Does music pay? -- Are great artists happy? -- Two Swedish nightingales. Jenny Lind ; Christine Nilsson -- Italian prima donnas. Adelina Patti ; Catalani and Pasta ; Tetrazzini : a musical mystery -- Two Spanish sisters. Pauline Viardot Garcia ; Maria Malibran. -- The nationality of singers -- German and Austrian singers. Mara and Sontag ; Schroder-Devrient, Wagner's idol ; Lilli Lehmann, Wagner's ideal ; Marianne Brandt ; Ernestine Schumann-Heink ; Pauline Lucca ; Marcella Sembrich -- Melba, Garden, and Calve. Nellie Melba ; Mary Garden ; Emma Calve -- Three American sopranos. Lillian Nordica ; Emma Eames ; Geraldine Farrar -- Is the art of song decaying? -- Modern improvements in tenors. Rubini, "King of tenors" ; Mario's modern traits ; Tamagno and Campanini ; Enrico Caruso ; Why De Reszke was supreme -- Four up-to-date baritones. Charles Santley ; Victor Maurel ; Maurice Renaud ; Ludwig Wullner -- Evolution of the piano virtuoso -- How Beethoven played and taught -- Chopin as pianist and teacher -- Liszt and his pupils -- Hints by Hans von Bulow -- Rubinstein the Leonine -- Paderewski and his secrets -- Paganini and Kubelik. Niccolo Paganini ; Jan Kubelik -- Remenyi and Ole Bull. Edouard Remenyi ; Ole Bull -- Spohr and Joachim. Louis Spohr ; Joseph Joachim -- Wilhelmj and Kreisler. August Wilhelmj ; Fritz Kreisler -- Some famous teachers. William Mason : an American pioneer ; Leschetizky, Paderewski's teacher ; Ottokar Sevcik, Kubelik's teacher ; How Garcia helped singers ; Jean De Reszke as teacher -- Hints to teachers -- Advice to parents -- Hints to pupils, singers, and players -- Paderewski on tempo rubato