Praeludium -- From Schütz to Telemann / Percy M. Young -- The Bach family / Antony Hodgson -- New trends about 1750 : Mannheim, Berlin, Hamburg / Peter Gradenwitz -- The classical symphony : Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven / Basil Lam -- German opera from Mozart to Weber / Hugo Zelzer -- Schubert and the Lied / Nicholas Temperley -- The classical romantics : Schumann and Mendelssohn / Hans Keller -- The romantic classicists : Brahms and Bruckner / Hans-Hubert Schönzeler -- Wagner : romantic zenith : seeds of the future / John Douglas Todd -- Into the twentieth century ; Schoenberg and Hindemith : a parting of the ways? / Eric Roseberry -- Postludium