The translator of this book, desirous, in common with other
friends of its author, that her claims as a lady of rare
scientific attainments should be recognized in this country,
where she has recently taken up her abode, has obtained her
consent to the publication of the following testimonials to
her position in her own country from gentlemen of the highest
eminence in science:
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Mad. Emma Seiler has dwelt for a long time here in Heidelberg,
and given instruction in singing. She has won the reputation
of a very careful, skilled and learned teacher, possessing
a fine ear and cultivated taste. While engaged on my book,
“Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen, &c.,” I had the honor of
becoming acquainted with Mad. Seiler, and of being assisted by
her in my essay upon the formation of the vowel tones and the
registers of the female voice. I have thus had an opportunity
of knowing the delicacy of her musical ear and her ability to
master the more difficult and abstract parts of the theory of
music.
I have pleasure in bearing this testimony to her worth, in the
hope of securing for her the confidence and the encouragement
of those who are interested in the scientific culture of music,
and who know how desirable it is that an instructress in the
art of singing should be possessed of scientific knowledge,
a fine ear, and a cultivated taste.
(Signed) Dr. H. Helmholtz,
Prof. of Physiology, Member of the Academies and
Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam,
Stockholm, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Göttingen.