The Orchestra in England - A Social History

Contents Include -THE CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA - The Pre-Classical Ochestra - Handle's Contribution - The English Manner - Subscription Concerts - Haydn in London - THE PHILHARMONIC PERIOD - The Founding of the Philharmonic Society of London - Temora Et Mores - English Relations with Beethoven - Why Weber came to London - The Mendelssohn Tradition - The Ochestra in Low Life - Costa and Berlioz - Wagnerian Interlude - Sir Charles Halle - THE NATIONALIST PERIOD - Manns and Grove at the Crystal Palace - Hans Richter - Municipal Music Under Sir Dan Godfrey - The Twentieth Century Ochestras - Reformation