Portrait by Lebronne. Engraved by Höfer. C. M. von Weber 232 Portrait by Schimon. Schubert 238 Water color sketch by W. A. Rieder. Mendelssohn 242 From a pencil-drawing by Bendemann in 1835. Autographed by Mendelssohn. Berlioz 246 Lithograph by Fischer in 1863. Autographed by Berlioz. Liszt 252 From a photograph taken in Budapest in 1875. Wagner 258 Photograph taken in Munich. Tschaikowsky 266 Photograph taken in Petrograd. Saint-Saëns’s Festival Concert, Salle Pleyel, Paris, in 1896 268 Saint-Saëns at the piano; Sarasate, violin; and Taffanel conducting the Orchestra of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. Drawn by J. Grigny. Debussy 270 Photograph taken in Paris. Orchestra of the Symphony Society of New York 272 Walter Damrosch conducting. Orchestra of the Eleventh Century 274 Development of the capital of a column in St. George’s, Boscherville, Normandy. Page from Conductor’s score 276 Beginning of Second Movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Richard Strauss conducting 278 Minstrels playing harp, flute, and pipe and tabor 280 From an illuminated _Ms._ of the _Romaunt of the Rose_, owned by the British Museum. Fifteenth Century. Harp of the Fourteenth Century (King David) 286 From a _Ms._ of the Fourteenth Century. Violinist, singer, and lady at the virginal 292 From Playford’s _Banquet of Music_. Printed in the Savoy for Henry Playford at his shop near the Temple Church (London, 1688). Concert with harpsichord 296 From Peter Preller’s _Modern Music Master_ (London, Eighteenth Century). THE ORCHESTRA AND ITS INSTRUMENTS THE ORCHESTRA AND ITS INSTRUMENTS PRELUDE We have just arrived in the Concert Hall, have taken off our wraps and are comfortably seated in our chairs waiting eagerly for the concert to begin. The Orchestra is entering from the doors at the sides of the stage.