Section One. The German Classic/Romantic Symphony from ca. 1800 to 1857 : After Beethoven: Leipzig as the epicenter of the symphony ; The symphonies of Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner : two symphonic composers turn to opera ; The symphonies of Louis Spohr ; The symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ; The symphonies of Robert Schumann -- Section Two. The Symphony in Northern Europe : The symphony in nineteenth-century Sweden: Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Franz Berwald ; The symphony in Norway: Edvard Grieg, Johan Severin Svendsen ; The symphony in Denmark from ca. 1830 to ca. 1925: Johannes Frederik Frøhlich, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Niels Gade, Carl A. Nielsen ; The Symphony in Finland from ca. 1850 to 1936: Jean Sibelius -- Section Three. The Avant-Garde/New School Symphonists: Hector Berlioz ; Franz Liszt ; Joachim Raff ; Richard Strauss

The third volume to appear in the magnum opus of A. Peter Brown takes as its topic the European symphony ca. 1800-ca. 1930 and is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the symphonies of Germany and the Nordic countries and discusses in great detail the symphonies of Weber, Spohr, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Lindblad, Berwald, Svendsen, Gade, Nielsen, Sibelius, Berlioz, Liszt, Raff, and Strauss. Volume 3B will appear in fall 2007 and will examine the symphonies of Great Britain, Russia, and France during the same period. Brown's series synthesizes an enormous amount of scholarly literature in a wide range of languages. It presents current overviews of the status of research, discusses important former or remaining problems of attribution, illuminates the style of specific works and their contexts, and samples early writings on their reception