THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF GREAT MUSICIANS By Rupert Hughes Illustrated Volume I. [Illustration] 1903 NOTE Portions of a few of the chapters of this work appeared serially in _The Criterion_, and the last chapter was published in _The Smart Set_. While, so far as the author knows, this is the first book on the subject, it is given, perhaps, especial novelty by the fact that advantage could be taken of much new material given to the public for the first time (with one exception) in the last few months, notably: a revelation of the exact identity of Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved;" the letters of Liszt to his princess; letters of Chopin long supposed to have been burned, as well as diaries and letters gathered by an intimate friend for a biography whose completion was prevented by death; the publication of a vast amount of Wagneriana; the appearance of a full life of Tschaikovski by his brother, with complete elucidation of much that had been suppressed; the first volume of a new biography of Clara Schumann, with a detailed account of the whole progress of her beautiful love story, down to the day of the marriage; and numberless fugitive paragraphs throwing new light on affairs more or less unknown or misunderstood. Love it is an hatefulle pees, A free acquitaunce without re lees. An hevy burthen light to here, A wikked wawe awey to were. It is kunnyng withoute science, Wisdome withoute sapience, Bitter swetnesse and swete errour, Right eville savoured good savour; A strengthe weyked to stonde upright, And feblenesse fulle of myght. A laughter it is, weping ay; Reste that traveyleth nyght and day. Also a swete helle it is, And a soroufulle Paradys. Romaunt of the Rose. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE OVERTURE II. THE ANCIENTS III. THE MEN OF FLANDERS IV. ORLAND DI LASSUS AND HIS REGINA V. HENRY AND FRANCES PURCELL VI. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF STRADELLA VII. GIOVANNI AND LUCREZIA PALESTRINA VIII. BACH, THE PATRIARCH IX. PAPA AND MAMMA HAYDN X. THE MAGNIFICENT BACHELOR XI. GLUCK THE DOMESTIC, ROUSSEAU THE CONFESSOR, AND THE AMIABLE PICCINNI XII. A FEW TUNESTERS OF FRANCE AND ITALY --PERI, MONTEVERDE, ET AL XIII. MOZART XIV. BEETHOVEN: THE GREAT BUMBLEBEE XV. VON WEBER--THE RAKE REFORMED XVI. THE FELICITIES OF MENDELSSOHN XVII. THE NOCTURNES OF CHOPIN LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PRINCESS LICHTENSTEIN (Frontispiece) DAPHNE HÉLOISE MARY STUART ORLAND DI LASSUS (Roland de Lattre) HENRY PURCELL JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH MORNING PRAYER IN THE FAMILY OF SEBASTIAN BACH JOSEPH HAYDN MRS. BILLINGTON GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD VON GLUCK JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU NICOLA PICCINNI JEAN BAPTISTE DE LULLY WOLFGANG MOZART MOZART, AT VIENNA, PLAYING HIS OPERA "DON JUAN" FOR THE FIRST TIME LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN BETTINA BRENTANO VON ARNIM COUNTESS THÉRÈSE VON BRUNSWICK CARL MARIA VON WEBER FELIX MENDELSSOHN