The great pianists.

I. In the Beginning [J. S. Bach, C. P. E. Bach:] -- II. It Should Flow Like Oil [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:] -- III. Thirds, Sixths, and Octaves [Muzio Clementi:] -- IV. In Profile and on the Road [Dussek, Cramer, WoÌlffl, Steibelt:] -- V. String-Snapper, Hands on High [Ludwig van Beethoven:] -- VI. In the Interim [Czerny, Weber:] -- VII. From Ireland to Bohemia [Field, Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Moscheles:] -- VIII. Romanticism and Its Rules -- IX. Tubercular, Romantic, Poetic [Frederic Chopin:] -- X. Thunder, Lightning, Mesmerism, Sex [Franz Liszt:] -- XI. Old Arpeggio, Other Salonists, and the American Penetration [Thalberg, Herz, de Meyer:] -- XII. More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves [Dreyschock:] -- XIII. Two Sensitive Ones [Alkan, Henselt:] -- XIV. The First American [Louis Gotschalk:] -- XV. The Virtuous [Mendelssohn, Halle, Clara Schumann:] -- XVI. Tyrant and Intellectual [BuÌlow, Goddard:] -- XVII. The Children of the Abbe [Tausig, Menter, Adele aus der Ohe, Rive-King, Amy Fay, Sgambatti:] -- XVIII. Thunder from the East [Anton Rubinstein:] -- XIX. French Neatness, Precision, Elegance [Saint-SaÌens, Plante, Pugno, Risler:] -- XX. The Listztianers and Leschetizkianers Take Over [Leschetizky:] -- XXI. An Archangel Come Down to Earth [Ignacy Jan Paderewsky:] -- XXII. The Little Giant, and other Liszt-Made Giants [d'Albert, Rosenthal, Sauer, Joseffy, Stavenhagen, Weiss, Friedheim:] -- XXIII. Some of the Leschetizky Group [Hambourg, Gabrilowitsch, Moiseiwitsch, Friedman:] -- XXIV. The Chopinzee, the Buddha, and Others [de Pachmann, Godowsky, Koczalsky, Grainger:] -- XXV. The Ladies [Essipoff, Carreno, Bloomfield-Zeisler:] -- XXVI. Composers at the Keyboard [Albeniz, Scriabin, Debussy, Dohnanyi:] -- XXVII. Dr. Faust at the Keyboard [Ferruccio Busoni:] -- XXVIII. Perfection Plus [Josef Hofmann:] -- XXIX. The Puritan [Sergei Rachmaninoff:] -- XXX. Some Headliners of the Day [Bauer, Lhevinne, Cortot, Novaes:] -- XXXI. New Philosophies, New Styles [Debussy, Prokofieff, Landowska, Tudor:] -- XXXII. The Man Who Invented Beethoven [Arthur Schnabel:] -- XXXIII. Romanticism Still Burns [Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein:] -- XXXIV. Twentieth-Century Schools [Gieseking, Serkin, Arrau, De Larrocha, Renard, Argerich, Barenboim, Lipatti, Lupu, Kocsis, Pogorelich, Bachauer, Michelangeli:] -- XXXV. After the Thaw [Gilels, Richter, Ashkenazy, Berman:] -- XXXVI. Bach a la Mode [Glenn Gould:] -- XXXVII. Two Cult Figures [Brendel, Pollini:] -- XXXVIII. Made in America [Kapell, Van Cliburn, Bolet, Wild, Watts, Gutierrez, Perahia:] ? Index.