CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. INTRODUCTORY 1

II. JOHANN KUHNAU 38

III. BERNARDO PASQUINI: A CONTEMPORARY OF J. KUHNAU 71

IV. EMANUEL BACH AND SOME OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES 82

V. HAYDN AND MOZART 111

VI. PREDECESSORS OF BEETHOVEN 130

VII. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 160

VIII. TWO CONTEMPORARIES OF BEETHOVEN 192

IX. SCHUMANN, CHOPIN, BRAHMS, AND LISZT 207

X. THE SONATA IN ENGLAND 221

XI. MODERN SONATAS, DUET SONATAS, SONATINAS, ETC. 235

INDEX 241