Excerpt from Offenbach in America: Notes of a Travelling Musician Everybody in that house was more or less of a musician, from the father down to the youngest son, whom death carried off so early, and who was said to be gifted with much talent. The house in the Rue de la Cloche had a modest appearance; the family was a large one, and the father's income did not allow Of excessive expenses. I was often told in my young days that Father Offenbach had to make the greatest sacrifices to enable his son Jacques to take music lessons. 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.