The Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff

Contents

• Contents (as printed in first-edition book from Greenwood Press)
• Prologue, Leon Fleisher
• Foreword, Russell Sherman
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Biographical Sketch
• Part I: Composers
• Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
• Bach (1685-1750)
• His Last Work
• Spirit, Style, and Forms
• Bach-Reger
• Brandenburg Concertos for Piano Duet
• Mozart (1756-1791)
• Quintet in D Major, K. 593
• Beethoven (1770-1827)
• Several Perspectives
• Mostly Beethoven
• On Beethoven's Trills
• Bagatelles, Op. 119
• The Ninth Symphony, Op. 125
• Schubert (1797-1828)
• Schubert's Reaction to Beethoven
• Schubert's "L'istesso Tempo"
• Schubert's String Quintet in C: A Misplaced Repeat Sign?
• Schumann (1810-1856)
• On Titles and Verbal Descriptions in Music
• Liszt (1811-1886)
• Beethovenian Dissonances in Liszt's Piano Works
• Liszt's Approach to Piano Technique
• Stravinsky
• A Modern Faust
• Part II: Letters
• From:
• Paul Badura-Skoda; Review of Interpretation on the Piano - What We can Learn from Schnabel
• Alfred Brendel
• Paul Henry Lang
• Rudof Serkin
• To:
• Leon Fleisher
• Artur Schnabel
• To and From:
• A Colleague
• Sviatoslav Richter
• Part III: Miscellany
• Christmas Music
• Music Appreciation
• Authenticity
• The Beginnings of Cyclic Form
• Bach's Dedication to King Frederick
• August Halm
• Observations
• On Teaching
• On Music an Musicians
• A Lesson in Writing
• Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782): Siciliano in F-Sharp Minor
• Part IV: The Brendel-Wolff "Debate"
• The "Debate"
• Addendum by Alfred Brendel
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• A photographic essay follows