E-text prepared by Colin Bell, Sam W., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) The following biographical sketches were originally published in America by Mr. George T. Ferris, in two volumes, separately entitled _The Great German Composers_ and _The Great Italian and French Composers_. They have achieved the success they deserved: for while we have whole libraries of books upon the history and technicalities of music in general, upon musical theories and schools, and upon the exponents thereof in their artistic capacity, there has been a distinct dearth of treatises dealing in a brief and popular fashion with the lives of eminent composers themselves. Now, when m…
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