Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Part 1 Composers
6. Chapter One. Beethoven’s Game of Cat and Mouse 3
7. Chapter Two. Schubert’s Pendulum 16
8. Chapter Three. Paganini, Mendelssohn and Turner in Scotland 28
9. Chapter Four. Berlioz and Schumann 42
10. Chapter Five. Alkan’s Instruments 57
11. Chapter Six. Liszt the Conductor 65
12. Chapter Seven. Wolf’s Wagner 79
13. Chapter Eight. Massenet’s Craftsmanship 87
14. Chapter Nine. Skryabin’s Conquest of Time 101
15. Chapter Ten. Janáček’s Narratives 108
16. Part 2 Themes
17. Chapter Eleven. Raise Your Glass to French Music! 129
18. Chapter Twelve. Comic Opera 133
19. Chapter Thirteen. Repeats 144
20. Chapter Fourteen 161
21. Chapter Fifteen. The Musicians’ Arrondissement 183
22. Chapter Sixteen. Les Anglais 193
23. Chapter Seventeen. Dr. Mephistopheles 202
24. Chapter Eighteen. The Prose Libretto 211
25. Chapter Nineteen ‘Un pays où tous sont musiciens . . .’ 224
26. Chapter Twenty. Modernisms that Failed 232
27. Index 243