Break in Bach's influence--Mr. Parry on this hiatus in the
evolution of music--Three periods of musical development--Rise
of the harmonic, or "melodic," school--Began with Domenico
Scarlatti--The founder of modern pianoforte
technique--Beginnings of the sonata form--Philipp Emanuel Bach
and the sonata--Rise of the amateur--"The Contented Ear and
Quickened Soul," and other quaint titles--Changes in musical
taste--Pianoforte has outgrown the music of Haydn and
Mozart--Bach, Beethoven and Wagner the three great epoch-making
figures in music--Beethoven and the epoch of the sonata--His
slow development--Union of mind and heart in his work--His
sonatas, however, no longer all-dominant in pianoforte
music--Von Buelow and D'Albert as Beethoven players--Incident
at a Von Buelow Beethoven recital--Changes of taste in thirty
years--The Beethoven sonatas too orchestric--The passing of the
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