CHAPTER X

MUSICAL MEMORIES

My Mother--Her Musical Friends--I Study with Masset--His Generous Offer--Litolff's Visit--My Mother's Musicales Develop into a Conservatoire--Rubinstein's Anger--His Refusal to Play for the Grand Duchess Helen--The Idols of the Musical World--A Friendly Jealousy--My Stratagem with Liszt--Glasounoff's Kindness--the Musicless