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| Preface | |
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| Pioneer of Opera: Claudio Monteverdi | |
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| Transfiguration of the Baroque: Johann Sebastian Bach | |
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| Composer and Impresario: George Frideric Handel | |
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| Reformer of Opera: Christoph Willibald Gluck | |
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| Classicism par excellence: Joseph Haydn | |
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| Prodigy from Salzburg: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |
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| Revolutionary from Bonn: Ludwig van Beethoven | |
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| Poet of Music: Franz Schubert | |
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| Freedom and a New Language: Weber and the Early Romantics | |
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| Romantic Exuberance and Classic Restraint: Hector Berlioz | |
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| Florestan and Eusebius: Robert Schumann | |
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| Apotheosis of the Piano: Frederic Chopin | |
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| Virtuoso, Charlatan - and Prophet: Franz Liszt | |
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| Bourgeois Genius: Felix Mendelssohn | |
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| Voice, Voice, and More Voice: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini | |
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| Spectacle, Spectacle, and More Spectacle: Meyerbeer, Cherubini, Auber | |
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| Colossus of Italy: Giuseppe Verdi | |
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| Colossus of Germany: Richard Wagner | |
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| Keeper of the Flame: Johannes Brahms | |
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| Master of the Lied: Hugo Wolf | |
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| Waltz, Can-Can, and Satire: Strauss, Offenbach, Sullivan | |
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| Faust and French Opera: From Gounod to Saint-Saens | |
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| Russian Nationalism and the Mighty Five: From Glinka to Rimsky-Korsakov | |
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| Surcharged Emotionalism: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |
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| From Bohemia to Spain: European Nationalists | |
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| Chromaticism and Sensibilite: From Franck to Faure | |
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| Only for the Theater: Giacomo Puccini | |
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| Romanticism's Long Coda: Richard Strauss | |
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| Religion, Mysticism, and Retrospection: Bruckner, Mahler, Reger | |
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| Symbolism and Impressionism: Claude Debussy | |
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| Gallic Elegance and the New Breed: Maurice Ravel and Les Six | |
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| The Chameleon: Igor Stravinsky | |
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| The English Renaissance: Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams | |
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| Mysticism and Melancholy: Scriabin and Rachmaninoff | |
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| Under the Soviets: Prokofiev and Shostakovich | |
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| German Neoclassicism: Busoni, Weill, Hindemith | |
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| Rise of an American Tradition: From Gottschalk to Copland | |
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| The Uncompromising Hungarian: Bela Bartok | |
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| The Second Viennese School: Schoenberg, Berg, Webern | |
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| The International Serial Movement: From Varese to Messiaen | |
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| The New Eclecticism: From Carter to the Minimalists | |
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| General Bibliography | |
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| Index | |