Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France : La Revue et gazette musicale de Paris 1834–80 (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Crosscurrents in early nineteenth-century criticism; 2. The rise of the specialist press from 1827; 3. Early music; 4. The Austro-German tradition I: the reception of Gluck, Haydn and Mozart; 5. The Austro-German tradition II: the reception of Beethoven; 6. The Austro-German tradition III: Weber, Schubert and Mendelssohn; 7. Contemporary music I: piano music; 8. Contemporary music II: chamber and symphonic music; 9. Contemporary music III: opera; 10. Contemporary music IV: the music of the future; 11. Contemporary music V: Berlioz; 12. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Principal contributors to the Gazette; Appendix 2. Personalia; Appendix 3. Contes, nouvelles, dialogues and other short literature in Schlesinger's Gazette musicale, 1834?46; Appendix 4. Publishing history of the Gazette; Appendix 5. Pseudonyms and attributions; Bibliography; Index of musical works cited; General index.