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TITLE A.F.C. Kollmann's Quarterly Musical Register (1812). An Annotated Edition with an Introduction to his Life and Works, by Michael Kassler
PUBL. DETAILS Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing (November 2008) xviii, 307p. Hardback, £75.00.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6064-4
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Contents

  Preface
  Part I Introduction to Kollmann's Life and Works:
  1. Kollmann in Germany (1756–1782)
  2. The personal union of Great Britain and Hannover
  3. The German Chapel at St James's Palace
  4. Kollmann's work for the German Chapel
  5. Marriage (1783)
  6. First publication
  7. Kollmann and the New Musical Fund
  8. Collaboration with Johann Wilhelm Häßler (1791–1792)
  9. An Introduction to the Art of Preluding (1792)
  10. An Essay on Musical Harmony (1796)
  11. Three Theoretico-Practical Works (1796–1798)
  12. An Essay on Practical Musical Composition (1799)
  13. The proposed edition of Bach's '48'
  14. Meeting with Johann Anton André (1800)
  15. The first Practical Guide to Thorough-Bass (1801)
  16. Changes at the German Chapel
  17. Public performances by Kollmann's children (1804–1806)
  18. Development and publication of A New Theory (1803–1806)
  19. Kollmann and La Belle Assemblée (1806–1807)
  20. A Second Practical Guide to Thorough-Bass (1807–1808)
  21. Theoretico-practical works illustrating A New Theory (1809–1810)
  22. George Kollmann's published compositions (1808–1812)
  23. Years after The Quarterly Musical Register (1812–1823)
  24. The American edition of An Essay on Musical Harmony (1817)
  25. Controversy with John Bernard Logier (1821–1824)
  26. George Kollmann's piano patent (1825)
  27. Kollmann's last years (1823-1829)
  28. Activities of Kollmann's children (1829–1840)
  29. Downfall of George and Joanna (1840–1849)
  30. The sale of Kollmann's library (1877).
   Part II The Quarterly Musical Register:
  1. The purpose of The Quarterly Musical Register
  2. The first number (1 January 1812)
  3. The second number (1 April 1812)
  4. The projected third number
  5. Notes to the text of The Quarterly Musical Register
   Part III Source Documents:
  1. Kollmann's c1823 autobiography
  2. Literary, musical and artistic works by A.F.C. Kollmann
  3. Literary and musical works by George Kollmann
  4. Calendar of correspondence of the Kollmann family
  Index of persons



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