The Classical Era: Volume 5: From the 1740s to the end of the 18th Century [Paperback]

From the series examining the development of music in specific places during particular times, this book looks at the classical period, in Europe and America, from Vienna and Salzburg to the Iberian courts and Philadelphia.Illustration Acknowledgments - Abbreviations - Preface - Music and Society in the Classical Era; N.Zaslaw - Italy: Two Opera Centres; D.Libby - Paris: the End of the Ancien R gime; J.Mongr dien - Maria Theresa's Vienna; B.A.Brown - Vienna under Joseph II and Leopold II; J.A.Rice - Salzburg under Church Rule; C.Eisen - The Bohemian Lands; C.Hogwood & J.Smaczny - The Mannheim Court; E.K.Wolf - Courts and Municipalities in North Germany; T.Bauman - Haydn at the Esterh zy Court; L.Somfai - London: a City of Unrivalled Riches; W.Weber - Stockholm in the Gustavian Era; A.Johnson - Spain in the Enlightenment; C.H.Russell - Philadelphia: a City in the New World; N.E.Tawa - Chronology - Index