[Frontispiece: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (photogravure)]

The Loves of Great Composers

by Gustav Kobbé

Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
New York

Copyright, 1904 and 1905
By The Butterick Publishing Co. (Limited)
Copyright, 1905, by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.

Published September, 1905


Composition and electrotype plates by
D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston

To Charles Dwyer

Table of Contents

Mozart and his Constance

Beethoven and his "Immortal Beloved"

Mendelssohn and his Cécile

Chopin and the Countess Delphine Potocka

The Schumanns: Robert and Clara

Franz Liszt and his Carolyne

Wagner and Cosima

List of Illustrations

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (photogravure) . . . . Frontispiece

Mozart at the Age of Eleven

Constance, Wife of Mozart

Ludwig van Beethoven

Countess Therese von Brunswick

"Beethoven at Heiligenstadt"

Félix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Fanny Hensel, Sister of Mendelssohn

Cécile, Wife of Mendelssohn

The Mendelssohn Monument in Leipsic

Frédéric Chopin [missing from book]

Countess Potocka

The Death of Chopin

Robert Schumann

Robert and Clara Schumann, in 1847

Clara Schumann at the Piano

The Schumann Monument in the Bonn Cemetery

Franz Liszt

Liszt at the Piano

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