Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1946. Text/As New. Linen boards/VG w/ shelfwear to corners and spine creased top and borrom. DJ/missing spine. Upper text edge dyed blue. Gift inscription on fEP. Biographies of 20 great Western composers, from Bach to Stravinsky. Emphasis placed on the composers' temperaments and working philosophies in hopes of understanding the fountain, so to speak, from which genius flows. Fine copy.. First Edition, First Thus. Hard Cover. Collectible - Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Gordon Ross (Illustrator). Second Edition,1946, First Thus. 1940. Garden City Publishing US . Seller in Spain