This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...such a calamity should occur, rush to the nearest music-publisher with those canons. Believe me, they will fetch enough to give me a decent burial." Old Opponents.--The publisher has always been the bane of the author--speaking in a general sense. Of course there have been brilliant exceptions, and instances are not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...such a calamity should occur, rush to the nearest music-publisher with those canons. Believe me, they will fetch enough to give me a decent burial." Old Opponents.--The publisher has always been the bane of the author--speaking in a general sense. Of course there have been brilliant exceptions, and instances are not wanting where a producer of prose, poetry, or music would have gone literally to the dogs save for the guiding arm and helping hand of his publisher. It is a big question, and is all summed up in one word--"business." The publisher hasn't a soul--or he shouldn't have, if he wishes to succeed as a purveyor of books. What he wants is what will sell. Unhappily, creators of literature have souls--articles which frequently lift them into the highest heaven of impracticability and absurdity, from a business point of view. In these days it is hard to imagine that Mozart--the ever-abundant, melodious Mozart--would be carpeted by a publisher because of the vein of his compositions. On more than one occasion, however, Hoffmeister told Mozart plainly that he "must write in a more popular style, or I can neither print nor pay for your compositions." To which the composer is said to have retorted, "Then I will write nothing more, and go hungry, or may the devil take me." A Good Test.--There is no reason why composers, any more than other people, should be the best judges of their own work. Meyerbeer's fondness for L'Africaine may be accounted for upon the same principle that parents are fondest of the child who gives them most trouble, for it is well known that Meyerbeer touched and retouched the score of this opera for seventeen years. Haydn's favourite work was the Creation. "That," said he, "will live. In ...
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