"It seems to me that a good deal has been crowded into my life and I almost feel that if I had to 'lay off' I could easily live on the fond recollections of the past ...... I'm almost willing to wager, at this early day, that sometime in the years hence I'll have collected a batch of such sweet and wholesome recollections that can be rated second to none. But best of all, there will be something besides a batch of recollections. For I believe that work with a capital W is the great source of contentment and pleasure, and since consistent work is bound, in my line, to produce something lasting, I hope someday to give pleasure to others in helping them to fish up some pleasant recollection that had most slipped away in the past." Albert H. Krehbiel, Paris, France, 1904

The 1921 three-volume English edition of a landmark biography of one of the world's greatest composers.