In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson explores how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century—Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms—responded to the model of Bach's organ music. The author shows that this quadrumvirate not only borrowed from Bach's organ works in creating their own masterpieces, whether for keyboard, voice, orchestra, or chamber ensemble, but that they also reacted significantly to the music as performers, editors, theorists, and...

• Introduction
• 1.: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Youth / The Grand Tour / Young Adulthood / The Leipzig Bach Recital /
• The Final Years)
• 2.: Robert Schumann (Leipzig / Dresden and Beyond)
• 3.: Franz Liszt (The Traveling Virtuoso / Weimar / Transcriptions / Relationship with A. W. Gottschalg /
• The Master Teacher)
• 4.: Johannes Brahms (An Overview / Brahms as a Scholar of Bach's Organ Works / Theoretical Sources
• / The Influence of Spitta's Bach Biography / Brahms's Inscriptions in...