E-text prepared by Andrés V. Galia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org). Jude Eylander provided the music transcriptions. Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations as well as music recordings. See 65865-h.htm or 65865-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/65865/65865-h/65865-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/65865/65865-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/artofmusiccompre02maso Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A caret character is used to denote superscription. Characters enclosed by curly brackets following a caret are superscripted, _i.e._ written immediately above the level of the previous character (example: 36^{th}). The musical files for the musical examples discussed in the book have been provided by Jude Eylander. Those examples can be heard only in the HTML version of the book. The Art of Music A Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Editor-in-Chief DANIEL GREGORY MASON Columbia University Associate Editors EDWARD B. HILL LELAND HALL Harvard University Past Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin Managing Editor CÉSAR SAERCHINGER Modern Music Society of New York In Fourteen Volumes Profusely Illustrated [Illustration] NEW YORK THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC [Illustration] [Illustration: Beethoven] _After the painting by Karl Stieler (Original owned by H. Hinrichsen, Leipzig)_ THE ART OF MUSIC: VOLUME TWO A Narrative History of Music Department Editors: LELAND HALL AND CÉSAR SAERCHINGER Introduction by LELAND HALL Past Professor of Musical History, University of Wisconsin BOOK II CLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM [Illustration] NEW YORK THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC 1915