Table of Contents
Introduction: Jost Hermand and James Steakley
JOHANN WALTHER (1496-1570)
Foreword to the Revised Edition of the Wittenberg Hymnal
HEINRICH SCHÜTZ (1585-1672)
To Elector Johann Goerg I of Saxony
Dedication of Symphoniae sacrae II
SAMUEL SCHEIDT (1587-1654)
To Duke August of Brunswick
To Heinrich Baryphonus
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767)
From the Autobiography
Sonnet on the Deceased Herr Kapellmeister Bach
GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL (1685-1759)
To Johann Mattheson
To King George I of England
To Charles Jennens, Jr.
To Georg Philipp Telemann
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Dedication of the Brandenburg Concertos
Contract with the Thomaschule
To Georg Erdmann
Dedication of A Musical Offering
JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ (1697-1773)
How a Performer and a Piece of Music Ought to be Judged
JOHANN ADOLF HASSE (1699-1783)
To the Abbé Giovanni Maria Ortes
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH (1714-1788)
Autobiography
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (1714-1787)
Dedication of Alceste
To the Mercure de France
To Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
To the Baroness Anna von Fries
To Valentin
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)
To Leonore Lechner
To Herr Rott
To Maria Anna von Genzinger
To the Administrator of the Esterházy Estate
To Christoph Gottlob Breitkopf
To the Members of th Bergen Musical Association on RÜgen
KARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF (1739-1799)
From the Autobiography
KARL STAMITZ (1746-1801)
To King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia
CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB NEEFE (1748-1798)
From the Autobiography
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
To Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo
To Maria Anna Thekla Mozart
To Leopold Mozart
To Leopold Mozart
To Constanze Weber
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
To Franz Wegeler
The Heiligenstadt Testament
To His "Immortal Beloved"
To Johann Wolfgan von Goethe
ERNST THEODOR AMADEUS HOFFMANN (1776-1822)
Beethoven's Instrumental Music
LOUIS SPOHR (1784-1859)
From the Autobiography
CARL MARIA VON WEBER (1786-1826)
On the Opera Undine by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Autobiography
Essay on Johann Sebastian Bach
CARL CZERNY (1791-1857)
From Reminiscences from My Life
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
To Franz von Schober and Others
"My Dream," an Allegorical Story
To Franz von Schober
From His Lost Diary
To Emperor Franz IITo Franz von Schober
FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (1809-1847)
To Carl Friedrich Zelter
To the Committee of the Lower Rhine Music Festival
To Marc-André Souchay
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)
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 (1810-1849)
Some Reflections on Italian Opera in Comparison to German
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
To Robert Schumann
To Countess Marie d'Agoult
Visit to Beethoven
RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)
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 (1824-1896)
To Baron Hans von Wolzogen
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
To Clara Schumann
To Marie Lipsius
To Clara Schumann
GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)
To the Members of the Budapest Opera House
To Arthur Seidl
To Alma Mahler
To the Members of the Court Opera Company
HUGO WOLF (1860-1903)
Opera Etiquette
A Monologue Recalled by Hugo Wolf
Bruckner on Two Pianos
Brahms's Symphony No.4
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)
Is There an Avant-Garde in Music?
To Hugo von Hofmannsthal
On Inspiration in Music
FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866-1924)
Rules for Practicing the Piano
Mozart
HANS PFITZNER (1869-1949)
To Bruno Walter
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874-1951)
New Music
My Public
To William S. Schlamm
To Josef Rufer
My Attitude toward Politics
ANTON WEBERN (1883-1945)
The Path to Twelve-Note Composition
ALBAN BERG (1885-1935)
The Teacher
Postscript Concerning Wozzeck
On Hundredth Anniversary of Franz Schubert's Death
On Mahler's Ninth Symphony
PAUL DESSAU (1894-1979)
America
Theodor W. Adorno
Bertolt Brecht
Models
