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The German library ; v. 51
German library ; v. 51. ^A182523
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Johann Walther. Foreword to the revised edition of the Wittenberg Hymnal -- Heinrich Schütz. To elector Johann Georg I of Saxony ; Dedication of symphoniae sacrae II -- Samuel Scheidt. To Duke August of Brunswick ; To Heinrich Baryphonus -- Georg Philipp Telemann. From the autobiography ; Sonnet on the deceased Herr Kapellmeister Bach -- Georg Friedrich Händel. To Johann Mattheson ; To King George I of England ; To Charles Jennens Jr ; To Georg Philipp Telemann -- Johann Sebastian Bach. Dedication of the Brandenburg Concertos ; Contract with the Thomasschule ; To Georg Erdmann ; Dedication of a musical offering -- Johann Joachim Quantz. How a performer and a piece of music ought to be judged -- Johann Adolf Hasse. To the Abbe Giovanni Maria Ortes -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Autobiography -- Christoph Willibald Gluck. Dedication of Alceste ; To the Mercure de France ; To Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock ; To the Baroness Anna von Fries ; To Valentin -- Franz Joseph Haydn. To Leonore Lechner ; To Herr Rot ; To Maria Anna von Genzinger ; To the administrator of the Esterhazy Estate ; To Christoph Gottlob Breitkopf ; To the members of the Bergen Musical Association on Rugen -- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf. From the Autobiography -- Karl Stamitz. To King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia -- Christian gottlob Neefe. From the Autobiography -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. To Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo ; To Maria Anna Thekla Mozart ; To Leopold Mozart ; To Constanze Weber -- Ludwig van Beethoven. To Franz Wegeler ; To Heiligenstadt Testament ; To his "immortal beloved" ; To Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. Beethoven's instrumental music -- Louis Spohr. From the Autobiography -- Carl Maria von Weber. On the opera Undine by E.T.A. Hoffmann ; Autobiography ; Essay on Johann Sebastian Bach -- Carl Czerny. From reminiscences from my life -- Franz Schubert. To Franz von Schober and others ; My dream an allegorical story ; To Franz von Schober ; From his lost diary ; To Emperor Franz II ; To Franz von Schober -- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. To Carl Friedrich Zelter ; To the Committee of the lower Rhine music festival ; To Marc-Andre Souchay -- Robert Schumann. To Friedrich Wieck ; Rage over the lost penny ; Chopin's piano concertos ; To Clara Wieck ; Schubert's symphony in C ; To Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ; New Paths -- Otto Nicolai. Some reflections on Italian opera in comparison to German -- Franz Liszt. To Robert Schumann ; To Countess Marie d'Agoult ; Visit to Beethoven -- Richard Wagner. From a pilgrimage to Beethoven ; The artist and the public ; To Karl Gaillard ; From opera and drama ; From his diary ; To Friedrich Nietzsche -- Anton Bruckner. To Baron Hans von Wolzogen -- Johannes Brahms. To Clara Schumann ; To Marie Lipsius ; To Clara Schumann -- Gustav Mahler. To the members of the Budapest Opera House ; To Arthur Seidl ; To Alma Mahler ; To the members of the Court Opera Company -- Hugo Wolf. Opera ediquette ; A monologue recalled by Hugo Wolf ; Bruckner on two pianos ; Brahms symphony no 4 -- Richard Strauss. Is there an avant-garde in music ; To Hugo von Hofmannsthal ; On inspiration in music -- Ferruccio Busoni. Rules for practicing the piano ; Mozart -- Hans Pfitzner. To Bruno Walter -- Arnold Schönberg. New music ; My public ; To William S Schlamm ; To Josef Rufer ; My attitude toward politics -- Anton Webern. The path to twelve note composition -- Alban Berg. The teacher ; Postscript concerning Wozzeck ; On the hundredth anniversary of Franz Schubert's death ; On Mahler's ninth symphony -- Paul Dessau. America ; Theodor W. Adorno ; Bertolt Brecht ; Models -- Paul Hindemith. To Gertrud Hindemith ; Preface to elementary training for musicians -- Hanns Eisler. Ludwig van Beethoven ; On modern music ; Theses ; Statement ; Statement on leaving the U.S.A. ; Bertolt Brecht and music -- Kurt Weill. Radio and the restructuring of musical life ; A note on jazz ; On the composition of the three-penny opera -- Ernst Krenek. That noise called music ; America's influence on its Emigre composers -- Werner Egk. On my Irish legend -- Karl Amadeus Hartmann. My yes to Luigi Nono -- Hans Werner Henze. Music as an act of desperation ; Opera belongs to everyone ; Paul Dessau ; German music in the 1940s and 1950s. |
| LCCN | 84016999 |
| ISBN | 0826402925 : |
| ISBN | 0826402933 (pbk.) : |
