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Introduction: Jost Hermand and James Steakley JOHANN WALTHER (1496-1570) Foreword to the Revised Edition of the Wittenberg Hymnal HEINRICH SCHUETZ (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 HAENDEL (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 Abbe 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 Esterhazy Estate To Christoph Gottlob Breitkopf To the Members of th Bergen Musical Association on Rugen 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 II
To Franz von Schober FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (1809-1847) To Carl Friedrich Zelter To the Committee of the Lower Rhine Music Festival To Marc-Andre 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 SCHOENBERG (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 PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1963) To Gertrude Hindemith Preface to Elementary Training for Musicians HANNS EISLER (1898-1962) Ludwig van Beethoven On Modern Music Theses Statement Statement on Leaving the U.S.A. Bertolt Brecht and Music KURT WEILL (1900-1950) Radio and the Restructuing of Musical Life A Note on Jazz On teh Composition of The Three-Penny Opera ERNST KRENEK (b. 1900) That Noise Called Music America's Influence on Its Emigre Composers WERNER EGK (1901-1983) On My Irish Legend KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN (1905-1963) My Yes to Luigi Nono HANS WERNER HENZE (b. 1926) Music as an Act of Desperation Opera Belongs to Everyone Paul Dessau German Music in the 1940s and 1950s