Author: LISZT (Franz):
Title: The Gipsy in Music. The result of the Author's Life-long Experience and Investigations of the Gipsies and their Music. Englished for the first time by Edwin Evans. With Seven Portraits.
Description: London: William Reeves..., [no date], [1926]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 215 x 133 mms., pp. xx, [2], 208; [4], 209 - 369 [370], lithographed portrait of Liszt as frontispiece in each volume, with two further portraits of Liszt in volume 1, another as a youth in volume 2, and portraits of Schubert and Beethoven in volume 2, original brown cloth, blocked in gilt. A fine set. Des Bohémiens et de leur musique en Hongrie was first published in 1859 and as Die Zigeuner und ihre Musik in Ungarn in 1861. Liszt was assisted in the preparation of this work by Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, who added a great deal of anti-semitic material to the second edition. Evans (1871 - 1945) was a music journalist and wrote for the Musical Times. So far as I can tell, he does not indicate whether his translation is from the French or German edition, or if he used the material Pricess Carolyne incorporated into the second edition.

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