The Garden Concert; painting by Watteau (in colors) _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE French Eclectics (Lalo, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Godard) 30 Russian Romanticists (Glinka, Dargomijsky, Rubinstein, Tschaikowsky) 48 Edvard Grieg 90 Jean Sibelius 104 Neo-Russian Composers (Moussorgsky, Balakireff, Borodine, Rimsky-Korsakoff) 122 Contemporary Russian Composers (Rachmaninoff, Glazounoff, Rebikoff, Glière) 150 Bohemian Composers (Smetana, Dvořák, Fibich, Suk) 178 Hungarian Composers (Count Zichy, Jenö Hubay, Dohnányi, Moór) 192 Modern German Symphonic and Lyric Composers (Mahler, Bruckner, Draeseke, Wolf) 202 Richard Strauss 214 Max Reger 226 Modern German Musical Dramatists (Humperdinck, Thuille, Pfitzner, Goldmark) 246 Modern French Composers (Chabrier, d'Indy, Charpentier, Ravel) 298 Claude Debussy 334 Contemporary Italian Composers (Mascagni, Wolf-Ferrari, Puccini, Zandonai) 372 Modern British Composers (Bantock, Sullivan, Parry, Elgar) 424 MODERN MUSIC CHAPTER I BY- AND AFTER-CURRENTS OF THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT Introductory; the term 'modern'--The 'old-romantic' tradition and the 'New German' school--The followers of Mendelssohn: Lachner, F. Hiller, Rietz, etc.; Carl Reinecke--Disciples of Schumann: Robert Volkmann; Bargiel, Kirchner and others; the Berlin circle; the musical _genre_ artists: Henselt, Heller, etc. (pianoforte); Jensen, Lassen, Abt, etc. (song)--The comic opera and operetta: Lortzing, Johann Strauss, and others--French eclecticism in symphonic and operatic composition: Massenet--Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Godard, etc. The term 'Modern Music,' which forms the title of this volume, is subject to several interpretations. Just as in the preceding volume we were obliged to qualify our use of the words 'classic' and 'romantic,' partly because all such nomenclature is more or less arbitrary, partly because of the fusion of styles and dove-tailing of periods which may be observed in the history of any art, so it now becomes necessary to define the word 'modern' in its present application.