Carl Maria Von Weber. The Life of an Artist

Baron Max Maria von Weber, J. Palgrave Simpson (translator)

Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1865

About this Item

In two volumes. ix, [3], 404; [4], 483pp.; 8 x 5.5 in.

Good. For both volumes: Extremities well rubbed, light staining to boards with some cockling of cloth on spine, joints threadbare, hinges strong, text clean and basically solid but overopening at points with some binding gauze visible.

From preface: "The task which Baron Max Maria von Weber, the son of the great composer, the story of whose life is here told, undertook in preparing a complete biography of his father, was one of no ordinary difficulty. For many years he resisted the entreaties of his
widowed mother to compose the work, from scruples which did honor to his heart and sense. On the one hand feared the accusation of a want of impartiality in writing of a father whose memory he regarded with as much pride as affection: on the other, he felt a natural delicacy in treating a subject, many persons connected with which were still in existence, and more especially as regarded the great artist?s troubled sphere of action in a country with which he himself was officially connected. His own scanty musical science he also considered an impediment in his way. But in process of time, as the memorials of his father, which he had been long collecting, gradually formed so considerable a portion of his daily thoughts and deeds, these scruples
were in some degree modified, in some degree obliterated.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carl Maria Von Weber. The Life of an Artist
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London
• Publication Date: 1865
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 5.5W x 8H x 0D inches 5.5 inches width by 8 inches height by 0 inches depth
• Weight: 4 pounds