V. 1. Part I. Weber's early years, 1786-1812. Carl Maria von Weber's family: his birth --
The boy's first opera: Freiberg and Salzburg --
Vienna and the Abbe Vogler --
Weber's first conductorship --
Wurtemberg and its capital in 1807 --
Manheim and Heidelberg in 1810 --
Part II. Weber's years of bondage, 1813-1817. Conductorship at Prague --
Weber's patriotic compositions --
V. 2. Part III. Weber's years of fame and suffering, 1817-1826. Dresden in 1817 --
The battle of the rival operas --
Weber's life and troubles in Dresden --
Weber and the Saxon court --
Weber's great year of creative power --
"Preciosa" and "Der Freischütz" in Berlin --
Conception of "Euryanthe": Vienna in 1822 --
Production of "Euryanthe" in Vienna --
