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[Dvorák, Antonín Leopold . (1841 - 1904)] Prentiss, Elizabeth. (1818 - 1878). Stepping Heavenward - THE COPY OF ANTONIN DVORAK. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company. 1860. First Edition. 8vo. Blue Cloth embossed boards with gilt lettering on spine. 426 pp + 4p. advertisements. Rubbing to edges and corners, front inside hinge split, starting to crack on outside. With the violet ownership stamp of the composer Antonin Dvorak on the title. A few minor textual corrections and underlines in pencil, impossible to know if they may be in the hand of of the composer.
The American author Elizabeth Prentiss is particularly rememberd for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the present religious novel. Its presence in the library of the Czech composer who was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City from 1892-1895, is interesting. A person of humble origins and demeanor and of deep faith, Dvořák often attributed his musical talents as being "a gift from God." Upon the completion of one of his settings of the Catholic Mass, he proclaimed, "Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this."
The American author Elizabeth Prentiss is particularly rememberd for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the present religious novel. Its presence in the library of the Czech composer who was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City from 1892-1895, is interesting. A person of humble origins and demeanor and of deep faith, Dvořák often attributed his musical talents as being "a gift from God." Upon the completion of one of his settings of the Catholic Mass, he proclaimed, "Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this."
[Dvorák, Antonín Leopold . (1841 - 1904)] Prentiss, Elizabeth. (1818 - 1878). Stepping Heavenward - THE COPY OF ANTONIN DVORAK. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company. 1860. First Edition. 8vo. Blue Cloth embossed boards with gilt lettering on spine. 426 pp + 4p. advertisements. Rubbing to edges and corners, front inside hinge split, starting to crack on outside. With the violet ownership stamp of the composer Antonin Dvorak on the title. A few minor textual corrections and underlines in pencil, impossible to know if they may be in the hand of of the composer.
The American author Elizabeth Prentiss is particularly rememberd for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the present religious novel. Its presence in the library of the Czech composer who was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City from 1892-1895, is interesting. A person of humble origins and demeanor and of deep faith, Dvořák often attributed his musical talents as being "a gift from God." Upon the completion of one of his settings of the Catholic Mass, he proclaimed, "Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this."
The American author Elizabeth Prentiss is particularly rememberd for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the present religious novel. Its presence in the library of the Czech composer who was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City from 1892-1895, is interesting. A person of humble origins and demeanor and of deep faith, Dvořák often attributed his musical talents as being "a gift from God." Upon the completion of one of his settings of the Catholic Mass, he proclaimed, "Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this."