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Transcriber's Note:
Author's archaic and variable spelling and hyphenation is mostly
preserved.
Author's punctuation style is preserved.
Illustrations have been moved closer to their relevant paragraphs,
but the original page numbers are preserved in the List of
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them.
Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_.
Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=.
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Transcriber's Changes:
Page 35: Was 'Wesendonk' (as if I had it by heart," he writes from
Venice to Mathilde =Wesendonck=, in relating to her the
genesis of the great love)
Page 139: Was 'Trauemerei' (And then there are the "Scenes from
Childhood," to which belongs the ="Traeumerei"=; the
"Forest Scenes," the "Sonatas;")
Page 172: Was 'Pathetique' (while for his "Symphonie =Pathetique=,"
one of the finest of modern orchestral works, Tschaikowsky
adds only a bass tuba)