Contents
Introduction
1. The Nature of Early Chamber Music
2. The Crystallization of Genres during the Golden Age of Chamber Music
3. Classical Chamber Music with Wind Instruments
4. The Chamber Music of Beethoven
5. The Emergence of the Wind Quintet
6. Schubert and Musical Aesthetics of the Early Romantic Era
7. Prince Louis Ferdinand and Louis Spohr
8. Champions of Tradition: Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms
9. Nationalism in French Chamber Music of the Late Romantic Era: Franck, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, and Ravel
10. National Schools from the Time of Smetana to the Mid-Twentieth Century
11. Nationalism and Tradition: Schoenberg and the Austro-German Avant-Garde
12. The Continuation of Tonality in the Twentieth Century
13. Strictly Confidential: The Chamber Music of Dmitri Shostakovich
14. Two Fugitives from the Soviet Bloc: György Ligeti and Karel Husa
15. Benchmarks: Chamber Music Masterpieces since circa 1920
Table of Chamber Pieces According to Ensemble Size
Notes
Index