Writings of German Composers: Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, Weill, and [Paperback]

Introduction: Jost Hermand and James Steakley

JOHANN WALTHER (1496-1570)
Foreword to the Revised Edition of the Wittenberg Hymnal

HEINRICH SCH?TZ (1585-1672)
To Elector Johann Goerg I of Saxony
Dedication of Symphoniae sacrae II

SAMUEL SCHEIDT (1587-1654)
To Duke August of Brunswick
To Heinrich Baryphonus

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767)
From the Autobiography
Sonnet on the Deceased Herr Kapellmeister Bach

GEORG FRIEDRICH H?NDEL (1685-1759)
To Johann Mattheson
To King George I of England
To Charles Jennens, Jr.
To Georg Philipp Telemann

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Dedication of the Brandenburg Concertos
Contract with the Thomaschule
To Georg Erdmann
Dedication of A Musical Offering

JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ (1697-1773)
How a Performer and a Piece of Music Ought to be Judged

JOHANN ADOLF HASSE (1699-1783)
To the Abb? Giovanni Maria Ortes

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH (1714-1788)
Autobiography

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (1714-1787)
Dedication of Alceste
To the Mercure de France
To Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
To the Baroness Anna von Fries
To Valentin

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)
To Leonore Lechner
To Herr Rott
To Maria Anna von Genzinger
To the Administrator of the Esterh?zy Estate
To Christoph Gottlob Breitkopf
To the Members of th Bergen Musical Association on R?gen

KARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF (1739-1799)
From the Autobiography

KARL STAMITZ (1746-1801)
To King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia

CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB NEEFE (1748-1798)
From the Autobiography

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
To Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo
To Maria Anna Thekla Mozart
To Leopold Mozart
To Leopold Mozart
To Constanze Weber

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
To Franz Wegeler
The Heiligenstadt Testament
To His Immortal Beloved
To Johann Wolfgan von Gl£1