Music at German Courts serves to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century German court music establishments without losing sight of what these Kapellen had in common.

Foreword by Michael Talbot'Das gantze Corpus derer...musicirenden Personen': An Introduction to German Hofkapellen'Das gantze Corpus derer...musicirenden Personen': An Introduction to German Hofkapellen - Barbara ReulThe Court of Saxony-Dresden - Janice StockigtThe Saxon Court of the Kingdom of Poland - Alina Zorawska-WitkowskaThe Court of Brandenburg-Prussia - Mary OleskiewiczThe Palatine Court in Mannheim - Bärbel PelkerThe Court of Württemberg-StuttgartThe Court of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg - Bert SiegmundThe Courts of Saxony-Weissenfels, Saxony-Merseburg and Saxony-Zeitz - Wolfgang RufThe Court of Anhalt-Zerbst - Barbara ReulThe Court of Sondershausen - Michael MaulThe Court of Würzburg - Dieter KirschThe Court of Hesse-Darmstadt - Ursula KramerThe Court of Baden-Durlach in Karlsruhe - Rüdiger Thomsen-FürstThe Court of Brandenburg-Culmbach-Bayreuth - Rashid-S Pegah'Die vornehmste Hof-Tugend': German Musicians' Reflections on Eighteenth-Century Court Life