A musical tour through the land of the past
1922
Preface.--A humorous novel by an eighteenth-century musician.--[Der musicalische quack-salber (The musical charleton) by J. Kuhnau]--An English amateur (Pepys's diary)--A portrait of Händel.--The origins of the "classic" style in eighteenth-century music.--The autobiography of a forgotten master: Telemann, the successful rival of J. S. Bach.--Metastasio: the forerunner of Gluck.--A musical tour across Europe in the eighteenth century "The majority of these papers appeared in the Revue de Paris (1st July, 1900, 13th August, 1903. 13th February, 1906, 15th April, 1910)"