Reproduces mss. in the Black Line Prints collection of the Music Division of the New York Public Library, prepared during the 1930's and 1940's under the Works Projects Administration's Music Copying Program.
Composer index to the series at back of volume.
Introduction in English.
"Three generations of eighteenth century symphonists are represented..., covering four important decades in the development of the symphony": p. xiii.
Includes bibliographical references.
Sinfonia in E-flat major (c. late 1750's) for two horns, strings, and continuo, Mennicke no. 78, Bebbington E♭3 / Johann Gottlieb Graun ; edited by Hans T. David -- Sinfonia in F major (c. late 1750's) for two flutes, two horns, strings, and continuo, Mennicke no. 95, Bebbington F1 / Johann Gottlieb Graun ; edited by Hans T. David -- Sinfonia in E-flat major (1767) for two oboes, bassoon, two horns, strings, and continuo, Bremner: Periodical Overture no. 14 / Niccolò Jommelli -- Sinfonia in F major (1750's) for two oboes (or two flutes), two horns, strings, and continuo, Bremner: Periodical Overture no. 30 / Anton Filtz -- Sinfonia in E-flat major (1765) for two clarinets (or two oboes), two horns, and strings, op. 8, no. 3, Brook no. 45 / François Joseph Gossec ; edited by Sydney Beck -- Sinfonia in D major (1769) for two oboes, two horns, strings, and continuo, op. 12, no. 1, Bremner: Periodical Overture no. 34, Brook no. 54 / François Joseph Gossec
Sinfonia in G major (1769) for two oboes, two horns, strings, and continuo, op. 12, no. 2, Bremner: Periodical Overture no. 33, Brook no. 55 / François Joseph Gossec ; edited by Sydney Beck -- Sinfonia in B-flat major (1769) for two oboes, two horns, strings, and continuo, Bremner: Periodical Overture no. 47, Bryan B♭3 / Johann Baptist Vanhal -- Sinfonia no. 32 in C minor (1770's) : per divertimento del Seremo Sigr Principe d'Asturias : for two oboes, bassoon, two horns, and strings / Gaetano Brunetti ; edited by Hans T. David -- Simphonie no. 1 in D major (c. 1786) for two oboes, bassoon, two horns, and strings / Leopold Kozeluch -- Grande sinfonie : in E-flat major (1789) for two oboes, two horns, and strings, op. 27, no. 1, Benton 139, Brook 18 / Ignace Pleyel