Excerpt from The Music of the Modern World, Vol. 1 of 2: Illustrated in the Lives and Works of the Greatest Modern Musicians and in Reproductions of Famous Paintings, Etc
The Music of the Modern World originated in a desire to create a book which should possess a distinct flavour of the life in which musicians feel, think, and act a life in which temperament, imagination, and suffering rule supreme a life of incessant mental activity and exertion, prosecuted too often under the burden of care, anxiety, and privation. It is the province of music to give the most precise and yet vivid expression possible to all the feelings and emotions incident to human life. As nations and individuals differ widely in temperament, the world of music in which they express themselves is full of divergent theories, instincts, and idiosyncrasies. The Music of the Modern World has sought to open the door of this intense and passionate musical life to the lovers of music. No theory, no school of art, or national animus has been prosecuted at the expense of rival theories, schools, or nationalities. On the contrary, the partisan known to be most enthusiastic in his cause has been chosen to exploit each special subject; each writers name makes him and no one else responsible for his opinions advanced, and nothing has been altered or softened to meet the personal views of the editors. Thus, when brought together, the various articles give a birds-eye view of the musical life as a whole, as it is being lived to-day, and a hint of the causes which have been at work to make it what it is. The many pens that have been busy in the preparation of The Music of the Modern World are without exception those of practical and often very famous musicians, artists, and critics. Everything contained in its pages is the utterance of people who live in music and by music. Even the artists whose paintings are reproduced in its pages usually turned out on investigation to be passionate lovers of music, and, like Ary Scheffer, Eugene Delacroix, and Paul Delaroche, members of circles where music held a supreme interest.
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