The old Flemish school.
The old Italian composers, Palestrina.
Opera and oratorio, Gluck, Bach, Händel.
Haydn and Mozart.
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Franz Peter Schubert.
Chopin and the modern piano composers.
Mendelssohn and Schumann.
A batch of operatic composers.
Wagner, his life and theories.
Johannes Brahms.
Giuseppe Verdi.
Other influences in modern music.