Teresa Carreño "by the grace of God"

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Prelude

Prodigy 1853-1867 : The first concert ; Background ; Childhood in Caracas ; Uprooted ; Ill wind ; A decisive audition ; Test flight ; The ninth-birthday concert ; Boston beginnings ; Teresita and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra ; Other appearances in Boston ; Laurels in Cuba ; New York interlude ; President and prodigy ; The tenth birthday ; Preparation and departure ; Shipwreck ; Introduction to Paris ; Under high patronage ; Paris concerts ; Preamble in London ; Calamity ; The Spanish tour ; New friends ; Teresita, the composer ; London revisited ; Rubinstein and Teresita

Trial and Error 1868-1889 : Marking time ; Teresa transplanted ; From promenade concerts to Monday "pops" ; Teresa in opera ; With the Patti-Mario Troupe in America ; Émile Sauret ; Marriage ; Death of Manuel Antonio ; Second American tour ; Rift and separation ; Second operatic episode ; Teresa and the MacDowells ; Second marriage ; The Carreño Concert Company ; The Carreño-Donaldi Company ; Regina Watson ; Depression ; On tour with Leopold Damrosch ; The Clara Louise Kellogg Company ; Teresa plays MacDowell ; Deeper depression ; The call of Venezuala ; Homecoming ; Success and failure ; The operatic venture ; Impediments ; Teresa conducts in opera ; Fiasco ; The coming of Arturo ; The MacDowell Concerto in D minor ; Opportunity ; London and Paris interval ; Germany attained ; Facing the test

Artist 1889-1902 : Berlin début ; The Walküre comes into her own ; At Berck-sur-mer ; Wider horizons ; Carreño and d'Albert ; Companionate holiday ; Coswig and the winter of 1891-1892 ; D'Albert in America ; Unison, 1892-1893 ; Consonance and dissonance, 1893-1894 ; Cross-purposes ; Two-piano ensemble ; The clash ; Readjustment ; Divorce ; Carreño, the performer, 1895-1896 ; Carreño, the composer ; Carreño "arrives" in the United States ; Europe, 1897-1898 ; The American tour of 1899 ; A Tyrolean summer ; The European tour of 1899-1900 ; Pertisau ; Havana, Mexico, and the United States, 1900-1901 ; The coming of Arturo ; Fourth marriage

Vista 1912-1902, 1912-1917 : Golden Jubilee ; Retrospect ; Fair horizons ; Arturo ; Teresita ; Giovanni ; Hertha and Eugenia ; Emilita ; Low ceiling ; Carreño, the teacher ; Hazards of war ; Swan song ; Finale

Afterglow

Postlude: Article by Dr. Walter Niemann

Chronology