Recollections of a Russian Home: A Musician's Experiences (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Recollections of a Russian Home: A Musician's ExperiencesWhen, some years ago, at the earnest entreaty of friends, I most reluctantly decided to publish my small volume of Recollections I never dreamt that a second edition of it would ever be required. Since that time many kind letters about my book have reached me from different parts of England - many from people I have never seen. These kind letters have given me very great pleasure and I take this opportunity of expressing to the writers my deep gratitude for their encouragement.Also I should like to offer my warmest thanks to my dear friends Miss Lilian Winstanley and Miss Gertrude Gregson for their kind help in connection with this book.Hoping to make the second edition more attractive I venture to enlarge it by adding my description of our visit to Grieg, which will, I hope, interest my readers.The proceeds of the second edition will again be devoted to the Sustentation Fund of the Royal Manchester College of Music.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.