"The most attractive Birthday Book ever published." 



Crown Quarto, in specially designed Cover, Cloth, Price 6s. 



" Wedding Present" Edition, in Silver Cloth, >js. 6d., in Box. Also in 

 Limp Morocco, in Box. 



An Entirely New Edition. Revised Throughout. 

 With Twelve Full- Page Portraits of Celebrated Musicians. 



DEDICATED TO PADEREWSKI. 



ZTbe /Ifousic of the 



A MUSICIANS' BIRTHDAY BOOK 

 COMPILED BY ELEONORE D'ESTERRE-KEELING. 



This is an entirely new edition of this popular work. The size has been 

 altered, the page having been made a little longer and narrower (9 x 6^ 

 inches), thus allowing space for a larger number of autographs. The 

 setting-up of the pages has also been improved, and a large number of 

 names of composers, instrumentalists and singers, has been added to those 

 which appeared in the previous edition. A special feature of the book 

 consists in the reproduction in fac-simile of autographs, and autographic 

 music, of living composers ; among the many new autographs which hare 

 been added to the present edition being those of MM. Paderewski (to whom 

 the book is dedicated), Mascagni, Eugen d'Albert, Sarasate, Hamish 

 McCunn, and C. Hubert Parry. Merely as a volume of poetry about music, 

 this book makes a charming anthology, the selections of verse extending 

 from a period anterior to Chaucer to the present day. 



Among the additional writers represented in the new edition are Alfred 

 Austin, Arthur Christopher Benson, John Davidson, Norman Gale, 

 Richard Le Gallienne, Nora Hopper, Jean Ingelow, George Meredith, 

 Alice Meynell, Coventry Patmore, Mary Robinson, Francis Thompson, 

 Dr. Todhunter, Katharine Tynan, William Watson, and W. B. Yeats. 

 The new edition is illustrated with portraits of Handel, Beethoven, Bach, 

 Cluck, Chopin, Wagner, Liszt, Rubinstein, and others. The compiler has 

 taken the greatest pains to make the new edition of the work as complete 

 as possible ; and a new binding has been specially designed by an eminent 

 artist. 



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