| Contents |
From Schutz to Telemann / Percy M. Young -- The Bach family / Antony Hodgson -- New trends about 1750: Mannheim-Berlin-Hamburg / Peter Gradenwitz -- The classical symphony: Haydn-Mozart-Beethoven / Basil Lam -- German opera from Mozart to Weber / Hugo Zelzer -- Schubert and the Lied / Nicholas Temperley -- The classical romantics: Schumann and Mendelssohn / Hans Keller -- The romantic classicists: Brahms and Bruckner / Hans-Hubert Schönzeler -- Wagner: romantic zenith: seeds of the future / John Douglas Todd -- Into the twentieth century. Schoenberg and Hindemith: a parting of the ways? / Eric Roseberry. |
| Abstract |
A collection of eleven essays, each of which illuminates one aspect of German music which appeared of particular interest, each written by an acknowledged expert on the subject, and arranged in chronological order. |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-324) and index. |
| LCCN | 75039128 |
| ISBN | 0854964010 |
| ISBN | 0064961133 (Barnes & Noble) : |
