ISBN10: 0955874610, ISBN13: 9780955874611, [publisher: Doghouse] Softcover First Edition Small-format paperback, 159pp, 4 pages of plates, NOT ex-library. Unread copy in clean and bright condition throughout. Tight binding with unbroken spine. -- Imagine an impressionable adolescent leaving the Tralee of 1844, arriving at the centre of the musical world of his day and mixing with 'the Gods' - Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann. This is the story of Arthur O'Leary, composer, musician, teacher and his travels from County Kerry to Leipzig Conservatorium to study, then teach, where among his pupils was on Arthur Sullivan; his further journey to London where his performing career began on the same day in 1858 as one Charles Dickens.
[Inagh, CLARE, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0955874610, ISBN13: 9780955874611, [publisher: Doghouse, Tralee,Ireland.] Softcover A tight, clean and possibly unread copy. Imagine an inpressionable adolescent leaving the Tralee of 1844, arriving at the centre of the musical world of his day and mixing with 'the Gods' - Liszt, Mendelsohn, Schumann. This is the story of Arthur O'Leary, composer, musician, teacher and his travels from County Kerry to Leipzig Conservatorium to study, then teach, where among his pupils was Arthur Sullivan; his further journey to London where his performing career began on the same day in 1858 as one Charles Dickens.
[Bantry,Co.Cork., IRL, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2008]