The Music Goes Round
Description:... "For fifty years Fred Gaisberg's name has been a byword in the gramophone industry. As Emile Berliner's assistant, he helped to perfect the disc record, and in 1898 was sent to Europe to persuade the musical celebrities of the day to make the first Red Seal records, which for years earned enormous sums for their makers. As chief recorder for the British Gramophone Company he knew Caruso, Tamagno, Patti, Melba, Paderewski, Kreisler, Nikisch, Toscanini, Walter, and all the other glamorous personalities of an age already legendary. He also journeyed far afield on the hunt for folk and special music to record, to Russia, India, and the far east, encountering many adventures amusing and otherwise on the road. When modern electrical recording was introduced in 1925, Mr. Gaisberg played a leading part in building up the impressive library of the world's great music, as played and sung by the greatest artists, which is today at the disposal of amateurs and collectors everywhere. A sound musical taste and a lifelong devotion to recorded music permeate these memoirs. They provide a rich omnium-gatherum of lore and anecdote, as well as a valuable history of what eventually became a business of the first rank, commercially and culturally. And throughout the book is seasoned with the mellow humor which has made Mr. Gaisberg persona grata in the international artistic world."--Dust jacket.
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