Nouvelettes of the Musicians: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Nouvelettes of the Musicians, credited to Elizabeth F. Ellet, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Nouvelettes of the Musicians by Elizabeth F. Ellet. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. In the following series of Nouvellettes, something higher has been attempted than merely the production of amusing fictions. Each is founded on incidents that really occurred in the artist’s life, and presents an illustration of his character and the style of his works. The conversations introduced embody critical remarks on the musical compositions of great masters; the object being to convey valuable information on this subject—so little studied or known except among the few devoted to the art—in an attractive form. The view given of the scope and tendency of the works of different artists, and their relation to personal character, may also enforce a striking moral; showing the elevating influence of virtue, and the power of vice to distort even the loveliest gift of Heaven into a curse and reproach. Of the tales—“Tartini,” “Two Periods in the Life of Haydn,” “Mozart’s First Visit to Paris,” “The Artist’s Lesson,” “The Mission of Genius,” “The Young Tragedian,” and “Tamburini,” only are original; the others are adapted from the “Kunstnovellen” of Lyser and Rellstab. The sketch of the great pianist, Liszt, is translated from a memoir by Christern, a distinguished professor of music in Hamburg. - Summary by Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Nouvelettes of the Musicians
• Author credits: Elizabeth F. Ellet
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 12:59:51

Catalogue topics

• anecdotes
• music
• Bach
• Mozart
• Beethoven
• Haydn
• Handel
• liszt

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01 - Preface and Handel Part 1 — 22:07
2. 02 - Handel Part 2 — 12:32
3. 03 - Tartini Part 1 — 20:36
4. 04 - Tartini Part 2 — 20:52
5. 05 - Haydn Part 1 — 23:30
6. 06 - Haydn Part 2 — 24:57
7. 07 - Haydn Part 3 — 13:14
8. 08 - Haydn Part 4 — 17:56
9. 09 - Friedemann Bach Part 1 — 20:37
10. 10 - Friedemann Bach Part 2 — 21:08
11. 11 - Friedemann Bach Part 3 — 20:26
12. 12 - Sebastian Bach Part 1 — 28:27
13. 13 - Sebastian Bach Part 2 — 4:18
14. 14 - The Old Musician — 19:03
15. 15 - Mozart Part 1 — 20:58
16. 16 - Mozart Part 2 — 25:22
17. 17 - Mozart Part 3 — 23:30
18. 18 - Mozart Part 4 — 16:27
19. 19 - The Artist's Lesson Part 1 — 15:37
20. 20 - The Artist's Lesson Part 2 — 19:33
21. 21 - Gluck in Paris Part 1 — 24:06
22. 22 - Gluck in Paris Part 2 — 17:05
23. 23 - Beethoven Part 1 — 18:04
24. 24 - Beethoven Part 2 — 12:45

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