MAN AND HIS MUSIC The Story of Musical Experience in the West ROMANTICISM AND THE 2oth CENTURY from 1800 by WILFRID MELLERS SALISBURY SQUARE - LONDON CONTENTS Page Preface ...... ix PART I INTROSPECTION AND NATIONALISM 1 Chopin, Schumann, and Mendelssohn . . 3 2 Liszt and Romantic Virtuosity . . 33 3 The Russian Nationalists . . . .49 4 The Nationalists of Central Europe . . 74 5 The Decline of Nationalism . . . 91 PART n INTROSPECTION AND ISOLATION 1 Two Song-writers . . . . 101 2 Franck and his Disciples with a Note on Skryabin 113 3 Delius, Sibelius, and Nature . . . .123 4 Debussy and Ravel ..... J3L 5 Two Traditionalists Faure and Strauss . .152 6 Elgar and Vaughan Williams . . . 166 7 Schoenberg and Hindemith . . . .182 8 Stravinsky and Bart6k . . . .198 9 Postlude Charles Ives and the New World . 218 Index of Musical Examples . . . . .226 General Index ....... 229 6 1 2703 . ILLUSTRATIONS An afternoon at Liszts . Frontispiece From M usic In the Romantic Era, by Alfred Einstein...