505 _0 |a Machine generated contents note:--tThe Nature of Early Chamber Music --The Crystallization of Genres duringthe Golden Age of Chamber Music --Classical Chamber Music with Wind Instruments --The Chamber Music of Beethoven --The Emergence of the Wind Quintet --Schubert and Musical Aesthetics of the Early Romantic Era --Prince Louis Ferdinand and Louis Spohr --Champions of Tradition: Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms --Nationalism in French Chamber Music of the Late Romantic Era: Franck, Debussy, Saint-Saens, Faure, and Ravel --National Schools from the Time of Smetana to the Mid-Twentieth Century --Nationalism and Tradition: Schoenberg and the Austro-German Avant-Garde --The Continuation of Tonality in the Twentieth Century --Strictly Confidential: The Chamber Music of Dmitri Shostakovich --Two Fugitives from the Soviet Bloc: Gyorgy Ligeti and Karel Husa --Benchmarks: Chamber Music Masterpieces sincecirca 1920