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BEETHOVEN AND HIS FORERUNNERS

BY

DANIEL GREGORY MASON

AUTHOR OF “FROM GRIEG TO BRAHMS”

NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1911 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1904. Reprinted August, 1911.

Norwood Press: Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

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I THE PERIODS OF MUSICAL HISTORY 1

II PALESTRINA AND THE MUSIC OF MYSTICISM 43

III THE MODERN SPIRIT 79

IV THE PRINCIPLES OF PURE MUSIC 123

V HAYDN 173

VI MOZART 211

VII BEETHOVEN 249

VIII BEETHOVEN (CONTINUED) 289

IX CONCLUSION 333