Music and society in the classical era / Neal Zaslaw -- Italy : two opera centres / Dennis Libby -- Paris : the end of the Ancien Régime / Jean Mongrédien -- Maria Theresa's Vienna / Bruce Alan Brown -- Vienna under Joseph II and Leopold II / John A. Rice -- Salzburg under church rule / Cliff Eisen -- The bohemian lands / Christopher Hogwood, Jan Smaczny -- The Mannheim court / Eugene K. Wolf -- Codurts and municipalities in north Germany / Thomas Bauman -- Haydn at the Esterházy court / László Somfai -- London : a city of unrivalled riches / William Weber -- Stockholm in the Gustavian era / Anna Johnson -- Spain in the enlightenment / Craig H. Russell -- Philadelphia : a city in the new world / Nicholas E. Tawa