Preface
I. In the Beginning [J. S. Bach, C. P. E. Bach:]
II. It Should Flow Like Oil [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:]
III. Thirds, Sixths, and Octaves [Muzio Clementi:]
IV. In Profile and on the Road [Dussek, Cramer, Wölffl, Steibelt:]
V. String-Snapper, Hands on High [Ludwig van Beethoven:]
VI. In the Interim [Czerny, Weber:]
VII. From Ireland to Bohemia [Field, Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Moscheles:]
VIII. Romanticism and Its Rules
IX. Tubercular, Romantic, Poetic [Frederic Chopin:]
X. Thunder, Lightning, Mesmerism, Sex [Franz Liszt:]
XI. Old Arpeggio, Other Salonists, and the American Penetration [Thalberg, Herz, de Meyer:]
XII. More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves [Dreyschock:]
XIII. Two Sensitive Ones [Alkan, Henselt:]
XIV. The First American [Louis Gotschalk:]
XV. The Virtuous [Mendelssohn, Halle, Clara Schumann:]
XVI. Tyrant and Intellectual [Bülow, Goddard:]
XVII. The Children of the Abbe [Tausig, Menter, Adele aus der Ohe, Rive-King, Amy Fay, Sgambatti:]
XVIII. Thunder from the East [Anton Rubinstein:]
XIX. French Neatness, Precision, Elegance [Saint-Säens, Plante, Pugno, Risler:]
XX. The Listztianers and Leschetizkianers Take Over [Leschetizky:]
XXI. An Archangel Come Down to Earth [Ignacy Jan Paderewsky:]
XXII. The Little Giant, and other Liszt-Made Giants [d'Albert, Rosenthal, Sauer, Joseffy, Stavenhagen, Weiss, Friedheim:]
XXIII. Some of the Leschetizky Group [Hambourg, Gabrilowitsch, Moiseiwitsch, Friedman:]
XXIV. The Chopinzee, the Buddha, and Others [de Pachmann, Godowsky, Koczalsky, Grainger:]
XXV. The Ladies [Essipoff, Carreno, Bloomfield-Zeisler:]
XXVI. Composers at the Keyboard [Albeniz, Scriabin, Debussy, Dohnanyi:]
XXVII. Dr. Faust at the Keyboard [Ferruccio Busoni:]
XXVIII. Perfection Plus [Josef Hofmann:]
XXIX. The Puritan [Sergei Rachmaninoff:]
XXX. Some Headliners of the Day [Bauer, Lhevinne, Cortot, Novaes:]
XXXI. New Philosophies, New Styles [Debussy, Prokofieff, Landowska, Tudor:]
XXXII. The Man Who Invented Beethoven [Arthur Schnabel:]
XXXIII. Romanticism Still Burns [Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein:]
XXXIV. Twentieth-Century Schools [Gieseking, Serkin, Arrau, De Larrocha, Renard, Argerich, Barenboim, Lipatti, Lupu, Kocsis, Pogorelich, Bachauer, Michelangeli:]
XXXV. After the Thaw [Gilels, Richter, Ashkenazy, Berman:]
XXXVI. Bach a la Mode [Glenn Gould:]
XXXVII. Two Cult Figures [Brendel, Pollini:]
XXXVIII. Made in America [Kapell, Van Cliburn, Bolet, Wild, Watts, Gutierrez, Perahia:]
Index
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