Notes from Vienna and Paris Music Studio (1904)

NOTES FROM VIENNA AND PARIS MUSIC STUDIOS GATHERED EY DEAREST FROM LETTERS HOME OF THE LATE MRS. NELLY GORE FUNK fcf WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1904 COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY FTJNK WAGNAIXS COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Published, September, 1904 To the Memory OF NELLY GORE CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION. By MABEL WAGNALLS xi PART ONE Letters from Vienna … 17 PART Two Letters from Paris, ., 119 APPENDIX Piano Exercises … .211 Exercises Given by Frau Bree . 213 Lessons Given by Leschetiszki . 217 Technical Exercises … 229 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PACK Mrs. Nellie Gore . Frontispiece Professor Leschetiszki …. 44 Professor Moszkowski … .164 Grave of Mrs. Nellie Gore … 207 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION WITH an a open grave by strange coincidence casually mentioned in the first letter of this col lection, and a closed grave pictured at the end, the imaginative reader can almost see the hand of Fate propelling the pen of the writer. Every word seems to converge toward the tragedy which occurred only two days after the last Good-by, dear 7 was written to her aunt by Your loving Nell and which was announced in our daily papers by the following head-lines AMERICAN LADY SHOT IN PARIS IN THE APARTMENT OF A RUSSIAN BARYTONE This seemed to suggest a scandal but those who followed the particulars of Mrs. Gores death which remained prominent in the papers for more than a week, were gradually convinced that their first surmise was erroneous. It developed that the barytone had been ill for several days, and the lady had presuma bly called out of sympathy. An accidental discharge of a revolver which had been lying on the table at his bedside, was the