Chapter VII: Part V: Chamber Music

XIV. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHAMBER MUSIC 467

The term ‘chamber music’; fifteenth-century dances; lute
music, early suites; vocal ‘chamber music’--Early
‘sonatas’: Gabrieli; Rossi; Marini; etc.--Vitali, Veracini,
Bassani and Corelli; Corelli’s pupils; Vivaldi; Bach and
Handel.

XV. THE FIRST PERIOD OF THE STRING QUARTET 486

The four-part habit of writing in instrumental
forms--Pioneers of the string quartet proper: Richter,
Boccherini and Haydn; Haydn’s early quartets--The Viennese
era of the string quartet; Haydn’s _Sonnen_ quartets; his
‘Russian’ quartets; his later quartets--W. A. Mozart;
Sammartini’s influence; Mozart’s early (Italian) quartets;
Viennese influences; Mozart’s Viennese quartets--His last
quartets and their harmonic innovations.

XVI. THE STRING QUARTET: BEETHOVEN 509

Beethoven’s approach to the string quartet; incentives; the
six quartets opus 18--The Rasumowsky quartets; _opera_
74 and 95--The great development period; the later
quartets, op. 127 _et seq._: The E-flat major (op. 127)--The
A minor (op. 132); the B-flat major (op. 130); the
C-sharp minor (op. 131); the F major (op. 135).

XVII. THE STRING ENSEMBLE SINCE BEETHOVEN 534

The general trend of development: Spohr, Cherubini,
Schubert--Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms, etc.--New
developments: César Franck, d’Indy, Chausson--The
characteristics of the Russian schools: Tschaikowsky,
Borodine, Glazounoff and others--Other national types:
Grieg, Smetana, Dvořák--The three great quartets since
Schubert and what they represent; modern quartets and the
new quartet style: Debussy, Ravel, Schönberg--Conclusion.

XVIII. THE PIANOFORTE AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS IN CHAMBER MUSIC 573

The trio--Pianoforte quartets and quintets--Sonatas for
violoncello and piano--The piano with wind
instruments--Chamber music for wind instruments by the great
composers.

ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME SEVEN

‘Home Concert’ painting by Fritz von Uhde (in colors) _Frontispiece_

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The Virginal and the Gravicembalo 8

The Clavichord and the Harpsichord 8

Title page of Kuhnau’s ‘Neue Clavier-Übung’ 32

Fac-simile of Bach’s Manuscript of the Prelude in C major
(Well-Tempered Clavichord) 80

Harpsichord Composers (D. Scarlatti, Couperin, C. P. E. Bach,
Clementi) 110

Beethoven’s Broadwood Piano 156

Pianoforte Classics (Moscheles, Czerny, Hummel, Field) 182

Caricature of Johannes Brahms on His Way to
the ‘Red Porcupine’ 238

Frédéric Chopin (after painting by Ary Scheffler) 268

Anton Rubinstein’s Hand 332

Famous Pianists (d’Albert, Busoni, Gabrilowitch, Paderewski) 364

Relatives of the Violin 372

Stradivarius at Work 386

Great Violin Composers (Corelli, Vivaldi, Tartini) 398

Caricature Statuette of Paganini 438

Great Violinists (Wieniawski, Joachim, Vieuxtemps, de Bériot) 448

Modern Violinists (Sarasate, Kreisler, Ysaye, Thibaut) 464

‘The Concert’; painting by Terborch (in colors) 476

Pioneers of the String Quartet (Boccherini, Haydn, Richter
and Dittersdorf) 488

Ludwig Spohr 536

The Flonzaley Quartet 550

Great 'Cellists (Popper, Gerardi, Casals) 596

Arnold Schönberg 602

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