The overture -- The ancients -- The men of Flanders -- Orland di Lassus and his Regina -- Henry and Frances Purcell -- The strange adventures of Stradella -- Giovanni and Lucrezia Palestrina -- Bach, the patriarch -- Papa and Mamma Haydn -- The magnificent bachelor -- Gluck the domestic, Rousseau the confessor, and the amiable Piccinni -- A few tunesters of france and italy: Peri, Monteverde, et al -- Mozart -- Beethoven: the great bumblebee -- Von Weber: the rake reformed -- The felicities of Mendelssohn -- The nocturnes of Chopin.

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