In the beginning -- It should flow like oil -- Thirds, sixths and octaves -- In profile and on the road -- String-snapper, hands on high -- In the interim -- From Ireland to Bohemia -- Romanticism and its rules -- Tubercular, romantic, poetic -- Thunder, lightning, mesmerism, sex -- Old Arpeggio, other salonists, and the American penetration -- More salonists, and the Revolutionary in octaves -- Two sensitive ones -- The first American -- The virtuous -- Tyrant and intellectual -- The children of the abbé -- Thunder from the East -- French neatness, precision, elegance -- The Lisztianers and Leschetitkianers take over -- An archangel come down to earth -- The Little Gant, and other Liszt-made giants -- Some of the Leschititzky group -- The Chopinzee, the Buddha and others -- The ladies -- Composers at the keyboard -- Dr. Faustus at the keyboard -- Perfection plus -- The Puritan -- Some headliners of the day -- New philosophies, new styles -- The man who invented Beethoven -- Romanticism still burns -- Twentieth-century schools.