1842. =Victor Duvernoy= (Paris), 1842. French composer and pianist, who, along with M. Leonard the violinist, established important chamber music soirées in Paris. 1843. =Edvard H. Grieg= (Bergen), 1843. Charming Norse composer. His piano and violin sonatas are well known, or should be. 1843. =G. Sgambati= (Rome), 1843. Italian composer, who has written some chamber music. Some laudatory expressions of Richard Wagner’s first drew attention to him. 1843. =J.S. Shedlock= (Reading), 1843. Musical critic and _littérateur_, who has also published some musical works. His articles on Beethoven’s Sketch Books, Cramer’s Piano Studies, with Beethoven’s notes, which he discovered; his work on the Sonata, and on Kuhnau’s Biblical Sonatas, are of great interest, bearing, as they do in part, on the subject of chamber music. 1844. =Edward Dannreuther= (Strasburg), 1844. Pianist and teacher, who resides in London. His influence has been of the highest value to the cause of chamber music in England. 1844. =Rimsky-Korsakoff= (Tichwin), 1844. Russian composer of distinction. His works include some interesting chamber music. 1844. =Hugo Heeymann= (Frankfurt), 1844. Violinist and leader of the quartett known by his name, one of the best in Germany. 1845. =Friedrich Niecks= (Düsseldorf), 1845. Professor of Music in the University of Edinburgh, where he has done much to promote the culture of chamber music. 1845. =Gabriel Fauré= (Pamiers), 1845. French composer, whose works include some chamber music. 1847. =August Klughardt= (Cöthen), 1847. Scholarly German composer, who, as well as chamber music, has written a good deal in the larger forms. 1847. =Sir Alex. C. Mackenzie= (Edinburgh), 1847. Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. A distinguished composer in all styles. 1847. =Benno Walter= (Munich), 1847. Violinist, and distinguished German quartett leader. 1847. =Agnes Zimmermann= (Cologne). Pianist of distinction, who has written chamber music, and also edited the piano works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann. Miss Zimmermann has chiefly resided in London. 1847. =Robert Fuchs= (Vienna), 1847. German composer, who has written a good deal of music, chiefly in classical form. His chamber music possesses a certain interest. 1848. =Sir C. Hubert H. Parry= (London), 1848. Principal of the Royal College of Music, London. Has written with distinction in every form save opera. His chamber music is of great interest, although he has chiefly occupied himself with larger works. 1848. =G.J.R. Heckmann= (Mannheim), 1848-91. Violinist and founder of the quartett which was known by his name.