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List of Figures 1. Duchess Sophie-Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, copper engraving, after 1635. 11 2. Schloss Güstrow, the ducal residence in Güstrow-Mecklenburg, copper engraving, Merian, seventeenth century. 13 3. Duke August the Younger, oil portrait by H. Boiling, 1666. 17 4. Title page from Sophie-Elisabeth’s Neu erfundenes FreudenSpiel genandt FriedensSieg, 1642. 32 5. Cast list from Sophie-Elisabeth’s Neu erfundenes FreudenSpiel genandt FriedensSieg, 1642. 33 6. View of staging for Sophie-Elisabeth’s Neu erfundenes FreudenSpiel genandt FriedensSieg, 1642. 33 7. Opening of the final act of Sophie-Elisabeth’s Glückwünschende Freudendarstellung, 1652. 34 8. Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, oil portrait by François de Troy, c. 1694–1695. 40 9. The Country Dance, oil by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), 1706–1710. 41 10. Jacquet de La Guerre, Prélude from the Suite no. 1 in D Minor, Les Pièces de Clavessin/Premier Livre, 1687. 59 11. Jacquet de La Guerre, Tocade from the Suite no. 4 in F Major, Les Pièces de Clavessin/Premier Livre, 1687. 60 12. Jacquet de La Guerre, “Symphonie” from Sémélé, Cantates françoises, c. 1715. 70 13. Jacquet de La Guerre, “Quel triomphe,” from Sémélé, Cantates françoises, c. 1715. 71 14. Regina Hitzelberger-Lang, charcoal drawing. 81 15. Josephine Lang, pencil drawing by Carl Müller, c. 1842. 84 16. Josephine Lang, “Auf der Reise,” Op. 22, 1837. 98 17. Josephine Lang, “Schmetterling,” Op. 8, no. 1, 1832. 98 18. Josephine Lang, “Ich muss zum Rhein,” 1841. 100 19. Josephine Lang, “Vögelein,” Op. 14, no. 5, 1842. 101 20. Schloss Leesdorf. 111 21. The Bach sisters at Leesdorf. 112 22. The eighteen-year-old Maria Bach in 1914. 119 23. Maria Bach, “Flohtanz,” for solo piano, 1917. 120 24. Maria Bach’s caricature drawing of herself and Joseph Marx, 1942. 121 25. Maria Bach, “Geh’ nicht,” 1919. 123 26. Maria Bach at the piano in her later years. 128 27. Ann Schein at ten performing for NBC television. 159 28. Schein, 1956, playing Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30. 161 29. Note to Schein, March 5, 1968, from Arthur Rubinstein. 177 30. Schein, press release for the Chopin Cycle, 1980–1981. 184 31. Telegram to Schein, June 5, 1982, from Rubinstein. 185 32. Schein with soprano Jessye Norman, 2001. 190 ...

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