History of the pianoforte and pianoforte players

by Oskar Bie

Index of Names and Matters

• Accompagnato—style, [95]
• Adam, L., [160], [186], [192]
• Agricola, M., 43 (see [Erratum])
• Alkan, [317]
• Ansorge, [301]
• Arcadelt, [8 note]
• Aria, [72]
• Arne, T. A., [38]
• Aston, [27]
• Attaignant, [42]
• Baake, [191]
• Bach, Friedemann, [138]
• Bach, John Christian, [94], [148], [159]
• Bach, John Sebastian, [91] ff.
• Life, [93]
• His contrapuntal method, [94]
• Accompagnato, [95]
• Style of work, [96]
• Construction of his pieces, [96]
• Technique, [116]
• Clavier method, [118]
• Bach and the Hammer-clavier, [122]
• Original editions of, [102]
• Toccatas, [98]
• Symphonies and Inventions, [97]
• Fugues, [100]
• “Art of Fugue,” [103]
• Wohltemperiertes Klavier, [102], [112], [113], [116], [119]
• Chromatic Fantasia, [103]
• Other Fantasias, [109], [110]
• Partitas, [104]
• English Suites, [106]
• Overture in French Style, [120]
• Italian Concerto, [109]
• Preludes, [112]
• Programme-music, [114]
• Goldberg Variations, [117]
• Other mentions, [148], [163], [326]
• Bach, Philip Emanuel, [128] ff.
• Life, [138]
• The “Versuch,” [139]
• “Manieren,” [140]
• Harmonies, [144]
• Melody, [144]
• Works, [143]
• Amalia-sonatas, [145]
• Barth, [306]
• “Bebung,” [20], [119]
• Bechstein, [310]
• Beethoven, [157] ff.
• Reformer, [158]
• Tragedy in Music of, [169]
• Concertos, [170]
• Scherzi, [169]
• Forms, [171]
• Style of playing, [183]
• Sonatas in detail, [175] ff.
• Bembo, Pietro, [77]
• Benedict, [191]
• Bennett, Sterndale, [268]
• Berger, Ludwig, [184], [191], [193]
• Berger, Wilhelm, [323]
• Bertini, [205]
• Besardus, [12]
• Bird, William, [27]-31
• Carman’s Whistle, [31]
• Bischoff, [307], [316]
• Blow, John, [38]
• Blüthner, [310]
• Böhner, [245]
• Bösendorfer, [310]
• Bononcini, [74]
• Borodin, [320]
• Borwick, [300]
• Brahms, [322]
• Brendel, Franz, [322]
• Breslaur, [304]
• Broadwood, [133], [169]
• Bülow, Hans von, [296]
• Bull, John, [32], [34], [36], [71 note]
• King’s Hunt, [35]
• Busoni, [301]
• Buxtehude, [92]
• Caccini, [75]
• Carissimi, [78]
• Carreño, Madame, [303]
• Cavalieri, [77]
• Cavalli, [75]
• Chabrier, [319]
• Chambonnières, [52]
• Chaminade, Cécile, [319]
• Chopin, [256] ff.
• Etudes, [203], [263]
• Chopin and Hummel, [261]
• Life, [258]
• Works, [262]
• Playing, [257]
• Clavichord, the, [19], [20], [89], [91], [124]
• Clavicymbal, [23], [81]
• Clauss-Savardy, [293]
• Clementi, [190], [208]
• Group of his followers, [191], [193]
• Collard, [193]
• Compass of clavier, etc., [19]-22, [24], [211]
• Concertos, [109], [151], [170], [319], etc.
• Contests, musical, [91], [161], [163]
• Corelli, [78], [82]
• Counterpoint, [9], [79], [84], [85]
• Couperin, François, [53] ff.
• Content of his pieces, [56]
• Forms, [55]
• L’art de toucher le clavécin, [63], [64]
• Couperin, Louise, [59]
• Couplet in Rondo, [55], [147] note
• Cramer, [194], [210]
• Cristofori, [121], [122], [133]
• Cui, [320]
• Czerny, [190], [216]
• Da Capo, [84]
• D’Agoult, [276]
• D’Albert, Eugene, [307], [324]
• Dance
• Old English, [18]
• First instrumental dances, [15], [42]
• French danseuses, [43] ff.
  
• Oldest books of dances, [52]
• Old dance forms, [55]
• Allemand, etc.
• Dandrieu, [49], [65]
• D’Anglebert, [40], [65]
• Dawson, [300]
• Diémer, [302], [309]
• D’Indy, Vincent, [319]
• Diruta, [24], [80]
• Döhler, [291], [293]
• Donizetti, [202]
• Dorn, H., [191]
• Dreyschock, [293]
• Dubois, [319]
• Dumont, [65]
• Dupont, [306]
• Durante, [89]
• Dussek, [159], [163] ff.
  
• Duysen, [310]
• Eberl, [183], [190]
• Eckard, Joh., [48]
• Eckard (Paris), [160]
• Elizabeth, Queen, [3], [4]
• Elsner, [265]
• English Music, [6], [14], [16], [27]-39, [38 note], [82 note]
• English relations to French music, [15], [41]
• Erard, [133]
• Ertmann, Baroness, [160]
• Essipoff, Madame, [293]
• Étude, [203] ff.
  
• Fantasia, Old English, [16], [82 note], [101 note]
• Fantasia, Italian, [80]
• Fantasia, free, [145] F. senza tempo, [143]
• Farnaby, [37]
• Farrenc, [52]
• Fauré, [319]
• Field, [159], [193], [265]
• Fingering, in old times, [26], [81], [116]
• Fischer, [303]
• Fleischer, Oskar, [41]
• Fortbien, [133]
• Franck, C., [319]
• French Characteristic Pieces, [132], [148]
• Frescobaldi, [73], [79], [80], [92]
• Freund, [306]
• Friederici, [133]
• Friedheim, [301]
• Froberger, [92]
• Gabrieli, [15], [26], [79], [92]
• Gabrilowitsch, [301]
• Gade, [321]
• Galilei, Vincenzio, [77]
• Gallot, [51]
• Galuppi, [89]
• Gasparini, [70]
• Gaultier, [41], [50]
• Gelinek, [161], [183]
• General Bass (see Thorough Bass), [284]
• Germer, [307]
• Gibbons, [7], [16], [37]
• Glasounow, [320]
• Gorlier, [15]
• Graf Pianos, [182]
• Gravicymbel, [133]
• Greulich, [191]
• Grieg, [321]
• Guicciardi, Julia, [160]
• Hackebrett (dulcimer), [121]
• Handel, [74], [138]
• Hässler, [159]
• Hammer-klavier, [121], [312]
• Harpsichord, [22], [24], [78 note]
• Hartvigson, [300]
• Hasler, [92]
• Hasse, [14]
• Hausmann, [309]
• Haydn, [149], [159]
• Hebenstreit, [121], [122]
• Heller, Stephen, [318], [319]
• Henselt, [318]
• Herz, [201]
• Heymann, [301]
• Hiller, Ferdinand, [191], [317]
• Hofmann, Jos., [301]
• Hüllmandel, [192]
• Hummel, [190], [193], [211], [212] ff.
• Hünten, [201]
• Hurdy-gurdy, [21]
• Ibach, [310]
• Improvisation, [161], [162] (Mozart), [198]
• In Bach’s time, [130]
• In 1800, [161], [198], [211]
• Irmler, [310]
• Isaac, [92]
• Italian Forms, [78]-80
• Chamber Music, [78]
• Jadin, [192]
• Jaell, [293]
• Janko, [308]
• Jannequin, [48], [49], [50], [61]
• Jedliczka, [306]
• Jensen, Adolf, [322]
• Joseffy, [306]
• Judenkunig, [11]
• Kalkbrenner, [190], [192], [198], [218]
• Kaps, [310]
• Karr, [201]
• “Kenner und Liebhaber,” [143]
• Keyboard, [24 note]
• Kienzl, [323], [324]
• Kirchner, [318]
• Kirnberger, [131]
• Kittl, [191]
• Kjerulf, [322]
• Klauwell, [304]
• Klavier (see Pianoforte), [18], [21], [23], [121]
• “Klavierlehrer,” paper, [305]
• Kleeberg, [293]
• Klengel, [193]
• Klindworth, [306]
• Knabe, [310]
• Koch, [315]
• Köhler, [189]
• Kontski, [190], [201]
• Kozeluch, [190], [210]
• Krebs, [145]
• Kuhnau, [92]
• “Quacksalver,” [129]
• “Biblical Stories,” [119]
• Kullak, Ad., [306]
• Kullak, Franz, [306]
• Kullak, Th., [191], [304], [306]
• Lacombe, [319]
• Lasso, Orlando, [26], [37]
• Le Begue, [65]
• Lebert, [306]
• Leschetizki, [308]
• Liadoff, [320]
• Lipawsky, [161]
• Liszt, [193], [264], [271], [287] ff.
• Locatelli, [82]
• Loeilly, [65]
• Löschhorn, [191]
• Logier, [190]
• Louis Ferdinand, Prince, [164]
• Lully, [44]
• Lütschg, [301]
• Lute in Middle Ages, [11], [77]
• Madrigal, [8], [15], [37 note]
• Marcello, [76]
• Marchand, [91]
• Marius, [122]
• Marpurg, [130]
• M’Dowell, [322]
• Mela, Domenico des, [314]
• Mendelssohn, [152], [198], [249] ff., [250 note]
• Menter, Sophie, [293]
• Merulo, [79] and [note]
• Meyerbeer, [194]
• Monochord, [19], [42 note], [77]
• Monteverde, [79]
• Moore, Graham, [322]
• Morley, Thomas, [37]
• Mortier de Fontaine, [293]
• Moscheles 152, [196], [198], [221]
• Moskowski, [306], [325] f.
• Mozart, [151]
• Mozart and the piano, [135]
• Clavier concerts, [151]
• Sonatas, [153] ff.
• Miscellaneous, [161]
• Müller, A. E., [190]
• Mulliner Book, [27]
• Munday, John, [36], [93]
• Mussorgsky, [320]
• Naprawnik, [320]
• Neitzel, [316]
• Octave, “short”, [24 note]
• Opera, Italian, [13], [74] ff.
• Operatic Fantasias, [200]
• Organ, in Middle Ages, [10] ff.
• Ornamentations, [12], [20], [34], [41], [57] and [note], [83] and [note]
• In Bull and Byrd, [29]
• Couperin, [57]
• Bach, [108]
• P. E. Bach, [140] ff.
• End of 18th cent., [150]
• Oury, Madame, [191]
• Pachelbel, [92]
• Pachmann, [301]
• Paderewski, [301], [324]
• Paganini, [207], [282]
• Pape, [133]
• Paradies, [89]
• “Parthenia” (also see Addendum, [p. 328]), [16]
• Pasquini, [70], [81]
• Pauer, Ernst, [191]
• Paul, Oskar, [18]
• Pedal, [136], [188], ([156, picture])
• With Dussek, [164]
• Adam, [186]
• Hummel, [186]
• Pedal Clavier, [120]
• Penna, Lorenzo, [24]
• Peri, [75], [79]
• Periodicals, musical, [131]
• Phillipps, Peter, [37] and [note]
• Pianoforte
• Modern factories, [309] ff.
  
• History of the instrument, [121], [122], [136]
• Viennese and English mechanism, [134], [136], [190]
• Socially, [134], [303]
• As furniture, [313] f.
• Pianos de luxe, [315]
• Piano and Opera, [201], [326]
• Piano and Orchestra, [150], [199]
• Prices of pianos, [135], [137], [316]
• Piano instruction, [190], [304]
• Conservatoriums, [305]
• Hammerclavier, invention of, [121]
• “Cottage” Piano, [314] ([156], [312], [313], pictures)
• Pièce Croisée, [58], [61]
• Pixis, [187], [191]
• Plaidy, [189], [306]
• Planté, [301]
• Pleyel, [133], [159]
• Pleyel, Madame, [191]
• Pollini, [191]
• Porpora, [89]
• Pradher, [192]
• Programme-Music, old, [49], [92], [93], [132]
• Proksch, [191]
• Prosniz, [28], [328]
• Purcell, [82 note]
• Raff, [323]
• Raif, [306]
• Rameau, [65], [66], [86], [92]
• Reading, the Monk of, [15]
• Rebel, [45]
• Registers or “stops” of Clavier, [23]
• Reincke, [92]
• Reisenauer, [301]
• Repetition, principle of, [72]
• Rheinberger, [323]
• Richardson, Ferdinand, [37]
• Riemann, [307]
• Ries, [191]
• Rimsky-Korsakoff, [320]
• Risler, [190], [301]
• Romantic School, [224]
• Rondo, Old French, [147 note]
• In Philip Emm. Bach, [147]
• In Beethoven, [174]
• Rondo and Sonata, [145]
• Rosellen, [201]
• Rosenhain, [293]
• Rosenthal, [301]
• Rossi, Michael Angelo, [82]
• Rubinstein, Anton, [294] ff.
• Rubinstein, Nicolas, [300]
• Ruckers, [23], [137], [314]
• Rudolf, Archduke, [191]
• Rudorff, [306]
• Rust, F. W., [163]
• Saint-Saëns, [319]
• Sand, George, [260]
• Sauer, [301]
• Scarlatti, Alessandro, [76], [88]
• Scarlatti, Domenico, [69] ff.
• Sonatas, [86]
• Technique, [88], [89]
• Cat’s Fugue, [89]
• Scharwenka, Xaver and Philip, [306], [324]
• Schiedmayer, [310]
• Schmitt, Aloys, [191], [192]
• Schobert, [160]
• Scholz, Bernhard, [306]
• Schröter, [122]
• Schubert, [225]
• Miscellaneous, [226]
• “Wanderer” Fantasia, [226]
• Op. 78, [227]
• Impromptus and “Moments,” [228], [229]
• Schulhoff, [191]
• Schumann, [231]
• Schumann and Schubert, [229] ff.
• Jean Paul, [232]
• Bach, [243]
• E. T. A. Hoffmann, [245]
• Life, [236]
• Clara, [236], [237]
• “Zeitschrift,” [238]
• Works, [231] ff., [238] ff.
• Miscellaneous, [249]
• Schwarz, Max, [306]
• Schytte, [322], [326]
• Senfl, [92]
• Shakespeare and Music, [5], [6], [7]
• Silbermann, [122], [134], [137]
• Siloti, [301]
• Sinding, [322]
• Sonata
• Sonata “da camera” and “da chiesa,” [78 note], [84]
• Old Italian, [86]
• Scarlatti, [86] and [note]
• Kuhnau, [92]
• Sonata and Suite, [107]
• 18th century, [110]
• Sonata and Rondo, [145]
• Philip Emm. Bach, [143] ff.
• Haydn, [150]
• Mozart, [153]
• Beethoven, [170] ff.
• Spath, [135]
• Spinet, [6], [24], [90]
• Spitta, [102], [116]
• Starck, [306]
• Stavenhagen, [301]
• Steibelt, [162]
• Stein, [137]
• Steinway, [310]
• Stenhammer, [322]
• Sterkel, [210]
• Strauss, Richard, [323]
• Streicher, [134]
• Streicher, Nanette, [160]
• Sucher, [303]
• Suite, (see Dance) [106], etc., and see [Addendum]
• Suspensions in Couperin, [57]
• Sweelinck, virginal pieces, [26], [37]
• Swietens, Van, [163]
• Szalit, Paula, [301]
• Tadema, Alma, [315]
• Tallis, [27], [32]
• Taubert, [191]
• Tausig, [300], [306]
• Technique, (see under), [187]-190, [209]
• Couperin, [64]
• Ph. Emm. Bach, [143]
• Fingering, [116]
• Keyboard, etc., [24], [26]
• Tedesco, [191]
• Temperament, equal and unequal, [101 note], [102]
• Thalberg, [197]
• Thilo, [307]
• Thoroughbass, [78], [79]
• Thumb, technique of, [139] ff.
• Tielmann, Sufato, [48]
• Tinctoris, [14]
• Tischer, [128]
• Titles of drawing-room pieces, [59], [200]
• Titles (allegorical, etc.) of old pieces, [42], [51], [59] ff.
• Tomaschek, [191]
• Tschaïkowski, [319]
• Türk, D. G., [185]
• Turini, the elder, [86]
• Turini, the younger, [89]
• Variations, Old English, [33], etc.
• Venetian instrumental music, [13], [26]
• Viadana, [78]
• Viennese musical life, [160]
• Villoing, [190] (line 8; omitted)
• Vinci, L., [76]
• Virdung, [20]
• Virgil, [307]
• Virginal, [6], [18], [81]
• Virginal Books, [15], [16], [27], [28]
• Virtuoso and Teacher, [64], [192], [305]
• Life of, [193].
  
• Virtuosos playing together, [198]
• Virtuosos and Concerts, [299]
• Vivaldi, [82]
• Volkmann, [318]
• Volkslied in Masses and Motets, [8]
• Vollweiler, [191]
• Wagner (instruments), [137]
• Wallace, [299]
• Wanhal-Vanhall, [190]
• Weber, Dionysius, [191]
• Weber, C. M., [206], [218]
• Weitzmann, [28], [328]
• Wendling, [309]
• Westermayer, [310]
• Widor, [319]
• Willaert, [79]
• Wilmers, [191]
• Wölffl, [161], [183], [190]
• Wolfsohn, [300]
• Wüllner, [306]
• Zimmermann, [317]
• Zumpe, [133]

List of Full-page Engravings

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Title-page. Portrait of Franz Liszt. Pastel by F. von Lenbach,of the year 1881, in the possession of Madame Cosima Wagnerin Bayreuth	[Frontispiece]
Young scholar and his wife. Painting by Gonzales(1614-1684), in the Royal Gallery at Cassel	[8]
Lady at the clavier. Painting by Dirk Hals, ✝ 1656, in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam	[14]
Le Maître de Musique, painting by Jan Steen, 1626-1679, in the National Gallery, London	[44]
Concert. Painting by Gerard Terborch, 1617-1681, in the Royal Museum at Berlin	[56]
J. Ph. Rameau. Engraving by J. G. Sturm (Nürnberg, 1742-1793)	[62]
A clavier lesson. Painting by an unknown Dutch Master, 17th century,in the Royal Gallery at Dresden	[78]
Domenico Scarlatti. Lithograph by Anon	[86]
J. S. Bach. Bust by Carl Seffner. Modelled on the actual skull.After His, J. S. Bach (Vogel, Leipsic)	[100]
Facsimile of title-page of Bach’s Manuscript of theWohltemperiertes Klavier, in the Royal Musikbibliothek, Berlin	[110]
George Frederick Handel, engraved by Thomson	[136]
Joseph Haydn, engraved by Quenedey	[148]
W. A. Mozart, engraved in 1793 by C. Kohl (1754-1807)	[150]
Mozart at the age of seven with his father and sister.Engraved 1764, by J. B. Delafosse (b. 1721) after L. C. deCarmontelle (✝ about 1790)	[154]
L. van Beethoven. Lithograph by C. Fischer, after the originalportrait of 1817, by A. Kloeber (1793-1864)	[168]
J. N. Hummel. Engraved by Fr. Wrenk (1766-1830), after the portraitby Catherine von Escherich (beginning of 19th century)	[210]
Franz Schubert. Lithograph of 1846, by J. Kriehuber (1801-1876)	[228]
Robert Schumann. Engraving by M. Lämmel	[236]
Chopin. Anonymous Lithograph, after portrait by Ary Scheffer(1795-1858)	[256]
Thalberg. Lithograph of 1835 by Staub	[276]
Liszt at Weimar, 1884, from a Photograph	[290]
Eugene d’Albert, portrait by H. Katsch	[298]
Johannes Brahms. Photograph from life by Marie Fellinger, Vienna	[322]

List of other Illustrations and Facsimiles

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Guido of Arezzo and his protector, Bishop Theodal, playing on a Monochord	[1]
Orlando Gibbons. After Grignon’s engraving in Hawkins	[7]
Title-page of the first English engraved Clavier Music, 1611	[17]
From the Weimar “Wunderbuch,” a Clavichord of about 1440	[20]
From the Weimar “Wunderbuch,” Primitive Spinet, of about 1440	[21]
A Concerted Performance	[25]
Page from “Parthenia,” the first English engraved Clavier Music, 1611	[29]
John Bull, at the age of 26	[33]
Henry Purcell, 1658-1695	[36]
The so-called “Hand” of Guido of Arezzo	[38]
D’Anglebert, Chamber Musician to Louis XIV., after Mignard	[40]
François Couperin, “Le Grand”	[54]
Portrait of Louis Marchand	[66]
Rameau, out walking	[67]
Old engraving after Wagniger’s design	[68]
Adrian Willaert, of Venice	[72]
Frescobaldi	[73]
Virginal in shape of a work-box	[81]
The same opened	[81]
The instrument taken out	[81]
Italian cembalo, from a monastery, of the 18th century	[83]
Old engraving representing Scarlatti playing a Harpsichord with two rows of keys	[85]
An Octave Spinet	[90]
German Clavichord, 17th century, “gebunden”	[91]
Konrad Pau(l)mann, the first German writer for keyed instruments	[95]
Skull of Sebastian Bach	[98]
The Fifteenth Sinfonia of John Sebastian Bach, from the Royal Musikbibliothek, Berlin	[105]
John Mattheson, at the age of 37	[115]
Pedal-clavichord	[120]
“Bundfrei” Clavichord	[124]
Philip Emanuel Bach	[126]
F. W. Marpurg, Theoretician and Clavier Teacher. 1718-1795	[130]
Streicher’s Pianoforte and Concert Saloon	[135]
Mary Coswey with the Orphica	[146]
Beginning of Mozart’s A minor Sonata	[153]
Upright Hammer-clavier, called the “Giraffe”	[156]
Beethoven at the age of 31	[157]
Dussek (portrait)	[165]
Cast of Beethoven’s living face, 1812	[167]
Specimen from Beethoven’s A flat major Sonata, Op. 26	[173]
Lyser’s Sketch of Beethoven	[176]
Beethoven’s last Grand Piano, by Graf, Vienna	[182]
Viennese pianoforte players about 1800. Eberl, Gelinek, Wölffl	[183]
The Brothers Pixis. 1800	[187]
Ludwig Berger. Pupil of Clementi	[191]
John Field, 1782-1837. Steel engraving by C. Mayer	[193]
Marcelline Czartoryska, née Princess Radziwill	[194]
Prince Louis Ferdinand	[195]
Marie Charlotte Antoine Josephe, Countess of Questenberg	[197]
Clementi (portrait)	[208]
Hummel in his later years	[213]
A Canonic Impromptu, by J. N. Hummel	[215]
Czerny. Lithograph by Kriehuber, 1833	[217]
Carl Maria von Weber. Lithograph by Eichens, after Vogel, 1825	[219]
Moscheles in his youth	[220]
Moscheles, later, 1859	[221]
Parisian and London Pianists at the beginning of the 19th century. L. Adam, Kalkbrenner, Cramer	[223]
Waltz by Schubert	[224]
Clara Schumann, née Wieck	[239]
Louis Böhner, the original of Hoffmann’s Kreisler	[246]
The last piece in Schumann’s “Kreisleriana,” main movement	[247]
Head of Mendelssohn, after Hildebrand	[251]
George Sand, in man’s dress	[259]
Chopin’s Hand. From a marble in the National Museum at Budapest	[270]
An afternoon with Liszt. Kriehuber, Berlioz, Czerny, Liszt, the violinist Ernst	[271]
Photograph of Liszt, taken in Budapest	[271]
Title-page of Hofmeister’s Edition of Liszt’s Op. 1.	[273]
Liszt in his youth	[275]
After Dantan’s Caricature of Thalberg	[276]
After Dantan’s Caricature of Liszt	[277]
Facsimile of Liszt’s Hungarian Storm-March	[279]
The “jeune école” of Parisian Pianists	[280]
Liszt in his youth	[281]
Cartoon representing Liszt and his Works. 1842	[283]
“General” Bass surprised and overcome in his fortress by Liszt	[284]
Liszt and Stavenhagen	[285]
Plaster Cast of Liszt’s Hand	[287]
Liszt lying in state	[288]
Music-room in the “Altenburg” at Weimar	[289]
Döhler. Lithograph by Mittag	[291]
Sophie Menter in her youth	[292]
Clotilde Kleeberg, 1888	[292]
Madame de Belleville	[293]
Carl Filtsch	[293]
Rubinstein at twelve	[294]
Hans von Bülow	[295]
Last Portrait of Rubinstein	[296]
Bülow on his deathbed	[297]
Reinecke in his youth	[298]
Carl Tausig	[299]
Paula Szalit	[300]
Eduard Risler	[301]
Josef Hofmann	[302]
Madame Carreño	[303]
Ferruscio B. Busoni	[305]
Hand of Eugene d’Albert	[307]
J. G. Paderewski	[311]
Upright Hammerclavier	[312]
Bechstein Cottage piano	[313]
Bechstein Grand Piano de luxe	[315]
Joachim Raff	[317]
Stephen Heller	[318]
Ferdinand Hiller	[318]
Adolf Henselt	[318]
Tschaïkowski	[319]
Richard Strauss	[320]
Philip Scharwenka	[321]
Dr Wilhelm Kienzl	[323]
Maurice Moskowski	[325]

TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words and names had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent use of diacriticals and hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged. Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged.

Obvious printing errors, such as letters in the wrong order, backwards, upside down, missing or partially printed, were corrected. Unprinted punctuation and final stops missing at the end of abbreviations and sentences were added.