What a sonata is--How Beethoven enlarged the form--Illustrated
in his Opus 2, No. 3, and in the "Moonlight Sonata"--The
three Beethoven periods--In his last sonatas seems chafing
under restraint of form--The sonata form reached its climax
with Beethoven--Hampers modern composers--Lawrence Gilman on
MacDowell's "Keltic Sonata"--The first romantic
composers--Weber--Schubert's inexhaustible genius--Mendelssohn
smooth, polished and harmless 100