BEETHOVEN AND HIS FORERUNNERS
BEETHOVEN
AND HIS
FORERUNNERS
BY
DANIEL GREGORY MASON
AUTHOR OF “FROM GRIEG TO BRAHMS”
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1911
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
COPYRIGHT, 1904,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1904.
Reprinted August, 1911.
Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I | THE PERIODS OF MUSICAL HISTORY | 1 |
| II | PALESTRINA AND THE MUSIC OF MYSTICISM | 43 |
| III | THE MODERN SPIRIT | 79 |
| IV | THE PRINCIPLES OF PURE MUSIC | 123 |
| V | HAYDN | 173 |
| VI | MOZART | 211 |
| VII | BEETHOVEN | 249 |
| VIII | BEETHOVEN (CONTINUED) | 289 |
| IX | CONCLUSION | 333 |
CHAPTER I
THE PERIODS OF MUSICAL HISTORY
CHAPTER I
THE PERIODS OF MUSICAL HISTORY
The modern view of history isvivified by a principle scarcelydreamed of before the middle ofthe last century; the conceptionwhich permeates all our interpretationsof the story of the world, which illuminatesour study of all its phases, was by ourgrandfathers apprehended either vaguely or not