Produced by Andrés V. Galia, Sarah Pridy, Astronomer, Jude Eylander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS [Illustration] THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO [Illustration: =VINCENT d'INDY=] CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS BY DANIEL GREGORY MASON AUTHOR OF "BEETHOVEN AND HIS FORERUNNERS," "THE ROMANTIC COMPOSERS," "FROM GRIEG TO BRAHMS," ETC. NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1918. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. PREFACE "We live," wrote Stevenson to Will H. Low in 1884, "in a rum age of music without airs, stories without incident, pictures without beauty, American wood-engravings that should have been etchings, and dry-point etchings that ought to have been mezzo-tints.... So long as an artist is on his head, is painting with a flute, or writes with an etcher's needle, or conducts the orchestra with a meat-axe, all is well; and plaudits shower along with roses. But any plain man who tries to follow the obtrusive canons of his art, is but a commonplace figure.... He will have his reward, but he will never be thought a person of parts."