Excerpt from Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musicians' Portraits: Biographical Sketches As the title indicates, the collection covers a wide range. Composers, performers and writers on music are alike rep resented. Persons of great fame, like Bach and Beethoven, stand shoulder to shoulder with contemporaries whose names have been all but forgotten by the musical world to - day. It is needless to say that in dealing with such diverse material any elaborate account would be out of place. The purpose of the hand-book has been to give as concisely as possible such information as may enable those interested to give the different musicians their true place in the history of the art. Where so extensive a territory has been covered, it would be too much to hope that errors have been avoided, but no pains have been spared to make the information given as accurate as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.