Table of Contents: “…--Silhouettes of musicians: Haydn, Mozart, Gluck, Beethoven, Rossini, weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Auber, Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Wagner…”

Table of Contents: “…--Sebastian Bach.--Felix Mendelssohn.--Franz Liszt.--Ludwig Beethoven.--Georg Handel.…”

Table of Contents: “…for the breeze : glee / John Goss -- Dirge for the faithful lover / Julius Benedict -- Stars of the summer night / John Hatton -- An old romance ; Departure / Felix Mendelssohn -- Orpheus, with his lute ; When daisies pied / George Macfarren -- Come live with me ; Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade / William Sterndale Bennett -- Sweet and low : lullaby / Joseph Barnby -- O hush thee, my babie ; Echoes ; The long day closes / Arthur Sullivan -- There rolls the deep ; Music, when soft voices die / C. …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- Mr. John Farmer. -- Mendelssohn. -- The snare of memory. -- The value of the indistinct. -- The claim of environment. -- The tyranny of the dance. -- A generation of music. -- The songs of Schumann and Brahms: some contacts and contrasts. -- Thayer's 'Beethoven.' -- Hubert Parry. -- Mozart. -- The 'how' and the 'what.' -- Music in the rough. -- A neglected composer: Joseph Joachim. -- The broadmindedness of Schumann. -- Over-faithfulness. -- Some questions of tempo. -- An orchestra of the past. -- An English musical critic of 1824. -- Goethe and some composers. -- Brahms and Heine…”

Table of Contents: “…'This man of our destiny': Moses Mendelssohn, Nathan the Wise, and the emergence of a liberal Jewish ethos -- Diasporic visions: the emergence of liberal Judaism -- Abraham Geiger -- Hermann Cohen's prophetic Judaism -- Ernst Cassirer and the ethical legacy of Hermann Cohen -- Ernst Cassirer: the enlightenment as counter-history -- Hannah Arendt: the task of the historian -- Hannah Arendt: a question of character.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 'A Veritable Muck-Midden'; 2 The Royal College of Music and the Mendelssohn Scholarship, 1900-1907; 3 The Mendelssohn Scholarship, 1904-7; 4 Earning a Living; 5 Dyson's War, 1914-16; 6 Wellington College; 7 Winchester College; 8 Winchester Works: The Canterbury Pilgrims, St Paul's Voyage to Melita and The Blacksmiths; 10 Major Works, 1937-43; 11 Director of the Royal College of Music, 1938-52: The First Five Terms; 12 The War Years, 1939-45, Seen through Dyson's College Addresses; 13 The Royal College of Music, 1945-7.…”
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Table of Contents: “…--Robert Schumann.--Felix Mendelssohn.--Berlioz and the beginnings of realism.…”

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Playing with images : character and emotion in the Age of Romanticism / Edoardo Torbianelli -- "Inner voices" and "deep combinations" : Robert Schumann's approach to romantic polyphony / Hubert Mossburger -- Frederic Chopin, Clara Schuman, and the singing piano school / Jeanne Roudet -- Vocal patterns in the themes of Berlioz's instrumental music / Jean-Pierre Bartoli -- Plot and narrative in Mendelssohn's chamber music for strings and piano / Douglass Seaton -- Robert Schumann's poetic paraphrases : analytical implications / personalia / Hubert Mossburger.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Lessing -- Reply to Lavater (1769) / Moses Mendelssohn -- Recollections of Mendelssohn (1792) / Salomon Maimon -- Correspondence (1793-5) / Rahel Levin and David Veit -- The Jew in the thorn-bush (1815) / The Brothers Grimm -- On Shylock (1828, 1838) / Ludwig Börne and Heinrich Heine -- Jehuda ben Halevy (1851) / Heinrich Heine -- Schiller in Barnow (1876) / Karl Emil Franzos -- Seligmann Hirsch (1889) / Ferdinand Von Saar -- An Autobiography (1898) / Theodor Herzl -- The Blood of the Volsungs (1905) / Thomas Mann -- From Hebrew ballads (1913) / Else Lasker-Schüler --From his diaries (1914) / Gershom Scholem -- Jackals and Arabs (1917) / Franz Kafka -- Jacob's dream, last scene (1919) / Richard Beer-Hofmann -- The Wonder-working rabbi of Barcelona (1921) / Else Lasker-Schüler -- Book-Mendel (1929) / Stefan Zweig -- Third Walpurgis night, extracts (1933) / Karl Kraus -- The Leviathan (1940) / Joseph Roth -- Four poems (1947-58) / Nelly Sachs -- Selected poems (1943-63) / Paul Celan -- The Jews' car (1962) / Franz Fühmann -- The Wall (1980) / Jurek Becker -- Robots (1990) / Maxim Biller -- Everything normal (1993) / Katja Behrens.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Beethoven -- Berlioz -- Brahms -- Bruckner -- Copland -- Dvorák -- Elgar -- Górecki -- Hanson -- Harbison -- Hartmann -- Haydn -- Hindemith -- Honegger -- Ives -- Mahler -- Martinů -- Mendelssohn -- Mozart -- Nielsen -- Piston -- Prokofiev -- Rachmaninoff -- Schmidt -- Schoenberg -- Schubert -- Schuman -- Schumann -- Sessions -- Shostakovich -- Sibelius -- Stravinsky -- Tchaikovsky -- Tippett -- Vaughn Williams -- Walton.…”

Table of Contents: “…--Symphony no. 4 in A major, by F. Mendelssohn.--Symphony no. 4, in D minor, by R. Schumann.…”

Table of Contents: “…Mendelssohn and Kant: one source of the critical philosophy -- The unity of reason: pure reason as practical reason in Kant's early conception of the transcendental dialectic -- Freedom as the inner value of the world -- Kant's morality of law and morality of freedom -- The possibility of the categorical imperative -- The strategy of Kant's Groundwork -- Kantian foundations for liberalism -- Life, liberty, and property: Rawls and Kant -- Moral worth, virtue, and merit -- From a practical point of view: Kant's conception of a postulate of pure practical reason -- Nature, freedom, and happiness: the third proposition of Kant's Idea for a universal history -- Nature, morality, and the possibility of peace.…”

Table of Contents: “…--Three specimens of early Mendelssohn.--The musical diary of Liszt's travels.--Wagner's French songs.…”

Table of Contents: “…Schumann / Linda Correll Roesner -- 4. Mendelssohn / R. Larry Todd -- 5. Berlioz / D. Kern Holoman -- 6. …”