The lure of music
Subtitle: depicting the human side of great composers, with stories of their inspired creations
By: by Olin Downes ; portraits by Chase Emerson
Contributors: Columbia Graphophone Company (U.S.)
Publisher: Harper & Bros.
Published: 1918
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Music appreciation; Musical analysis; Operas; Stories, plots
Notes: "Composers representative of Germany have been omitted from this volume."

"Record index" (Columbia records): p. 333-[353].
Table of contents: title: Gioachino Antonio Rossini; title: Gaetano Donizetti; title: Vincenzo Bellini; title: Giuseppe Verdi; title: Frederic Francois Chopin; title: Franz Liszt; title: Ambroise Thomas; title: Charles Francois Gounod; title: Jacques Offenbach; title: Leo Delibes; title: Georges Bizet; title: Amilcare Ponchielli; title: Arrigo Boito; title: Giacomo Puccini; title: Ruggiero Leoncavallo; title: Pietro Mascagni; title: Jules Frederic Massenet; title: Camille Saint-Saens; title: Modern French composers; title: Antonin Dvorak; title: Edvard Grieg; title: Anton Rubinstein; title: Peter Iljitch Tschaikowsky; title: Modern Russian composers; title: Michael William Balfe; title: Arthur Sullivan; title: Modern English composers; title: Hector Berlioz; title: American composers; title: Folk songs