Excerpt from International Who's Who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: A Contemporary Biographical Dictionary and a Record of the World's Musical Activity Books of similar character hitherto have beien frankly sectional in scope. The standard dictionaries, on the other hand, such as Grove' s in England and Baker's in America have been concerned more with the past than the present, and a rather rigid standard of historical information has excluded many musicians of national and international reputation concerning whom biographical information is daily sought by their colleagues and by music lovers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.