HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: Aug. 1944 * Publisher: John Westhouse (Publishers) Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Cream cloth, pale blue title to spine and impressed publishers logo to face. No bumps, minor rubs, slight shelf wear at head and tail of spine. Some age to edges and spine. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat inscription to fep. Clean, crisp and tight with only minor reading wear, no marks to text, slight age and marks to top and fore edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: ix b/w photos and facsimiles within text.* Pages: 207 pp. text. ix pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Born in Breslau in 1850 of Polish descent, Sir George Henschel was an exemplary student and then a solo singer. This biography is written by Helen Henschel, his daughter by his first wife with whom he sang and conducted. In the later part of his life he remarried and extended his skills to broadcasting in the early years of that new form of musical experience. In 1874 he attended as one of his first major concerts a music festival at which Brahms was present and they struck up a friendship and correspondence which lasted for some years. The text of some of their correspondence is included.* A NEAR VG copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS but lack of dust jacket reduces it to GD++.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5495
Title: When Soft Voices Die. A Musical Biography By Helen Henschel.
Author: Henschel., Helen
Illustrator: Throughout., Pictorial Illustrations
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG/VG/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: John Westhouse (publishers) Limited.
Place of Publication: London Uk 207
Date Published: 1944-08-01
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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