NOTES

Chapter 2: Struggles and Triumphs of Western Musicians

1.  George R. Marek, Beethoven: Biography of a Genius (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969), pp. 93, 94.

2.  http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/list.php?page=museum_internetausstellung_seiten_en&sv[internetausstellung.id]=31561&skip=9, accessed July 2014.

3.  Ibid.

4.  Jim Whiting, The Life and Times of Giuseppe Verdi (Hockesin, DE: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2005), p. 40.

5.  Peter Davis, The American Opera Singer: The Lives and Adventures of America’s Great Singers in Opera and in Concert from 1825 to the Present (New York: Doubleday, 1997), p. 134.

6.  Ibid.

7.  Ibid., p. 135.

8.  Ibid., p. 129.

9.  “Bubbles—Beverly Sills,” www.diarci.com/2012/12/10/bubbles-beverly-sills/, accessed ...

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