The original text consistently misspelled "Dvořák" with the caron over the o; this has been corrected. The inconsistent use of ’s or s’s for the possessives of proper names ending in s has been normalized to s’s (e.g., “Brahms’s”). Other obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Italics are indicated by _underscores_ and boldface is indicated by =equal signs=. Illustrations and sidenotes have been moved so as not to interrupt the flow of the text. In Appendix A, Prince Rasumowsky is erroneously listed under 1808. He was actually born in 1752, per Wikipedia.]