Heribert Esser has had a long and distinguished career as a conductor. He was music director of the Braunschweig State Theater and has been a guest conductor on every continent, conducting a wide repertoire of symphonic music as well as opera. Irene Schreier is a pianist who has performed widely in Europe, Israel, and the Americas. She is Artist-Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Music.

It comes as no surprise that this volume, though slim, is packed with a rich variety of insights ... in the burgeoning field of performance studies, it should rapidly become a standard text.

• Translator's Introduction Editor's Introduction Sources and Editorial Procedure Plates 1: Musical Composition and Performance 2: Mode of Notation and Performance 3: The Technique of Playing the Piano 4: Non Legato 5: Legato 6: Staccato 7: Fingering 8: Dynamics 9: Tempo and Tempo Modifications 10: Rests 11: The Performance of Older Music 12: On Practicing Appendixes Notes Selected Bibliography with Annotations Index of Musical Examples