| Included Work | Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 Monsieur Croche, antidilettante. English. |
| Included Work | Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924 Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst. English. |
| Included Work | Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 Essays before a sonata. |
| Included Work | Baker, Theodore, 1851-1934. |
| Contents |
Monsieur Croche the dilettante hater / Claude Debussy -- Monsieur Croche the dilettante hater -- A talk about the Prix de Rome and Saint-Saëns -- The symphony -- Moussorgski [Mussorgsky] -- The Paul Dukas sonata -- Virtuosos -- The opera -- Nikisch -- Massenet -- Open-air music -- Recollections -- Rameau -- Beethoven -- The people's theatre -- Richard Strauss -- Richard Wagner -- Siegfried Wagner -- César Franck -- Neglect -- Grieg -- Vincent D'Indy -- Richter -- Berlioz -- Gounod -- An open letter to the Chevalier W. Gluck -- Sketch of a new esthetic of music / Ferruccio Busoni -- Addenda -- Essays before a sonata / Charles E. Ives -- Prologue -- Emerson -- Hawthorne -- 'The Alcotts' -- Thoreau -- Epilogue -- Index to Monsieur Croche the dilettante hater. |
| Abstract |
The three modern composers compared in this book were close together in age if not in attitude. Their most important contributions to culture were musical rather than literary, but when three highly successful practitioners of the musical art commit to writing their views on the nature and value of that art, the result is certain to be rewarding and stimulating. |
| General note | Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater is translated by by B.N. Langdon Davies and Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music is translated from the German by Th. Baker. |
| Other title | Monsieur Croche the dilettante hater. |
| Other title | Sketch of a new esthetic of music. |
| Other title | Essays before a sonata. |
