Gordon, Stewart

A History of Keyboard Literature : Music for the Piano and Its Forerunners

Preface vii Stringed Keyboard Instruments 1(15) Keyboard Music to the End of the Renaissance 16(17) Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy, France, England, and Germany 33(18) George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach 51(18) The Galant Style 69(22) Franz Joseph Haydn 91(32) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 123(19) Ludwig van Beethoven 142(54) The Turn of the Nineteenth Century 196(17) Franz Peter Schubert 213(24) Felix Mendelssohn 237(11) Robert (Alexander) Schumann 248(29) Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin 277(28) Franz Liszt 305(24) Johannes Brahms 329(17) Other Composers of the Nineteenth Century 346(11) (Achille-) Claude Debussy 357(28) French Keyboard Music of the Early Twentienth Century 385(19) Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin Keyboard Music in the Twentieth Century 404(20) Russian Keyboard Music 424(23) Other European Composers of the Twentieth Century 447(39) Keyboard Music of Nontonal Composers in Europe 486(14) The United States and Canada in the Twentieth Century 500(31) Bibliographical Abbreviations 531(2) Selected Anthologies and Collections 533(2) A Selected List of Complete Editions 535(2) Bibliography of Secondary Literature 537(14) Index 551