Note 1 — PREFACE

Opera-overtures do not, of course, come within the scope of a book designed expressly to serve as a guide to music written for the concert-room. Hence, even works that are either frequently or always played apart from their intended operatic setting—as the several "Leonora" overtures of Beethoven, and the "Francs-Juges" and "Benvenuto Cellini" overtures of Berlioz—are not included.