Rare issues of this rare and important music periodical, with articles on a wide variety of topics—early music and scholarly editions of older music (Mozart's Don Giovanni in the 1836 volume), contemporary controversies (such as the revolution of violin playing by Paganini in the 1829 volume), contemporary music (a survey of French operas in the 1830 volume), musical traditions on the fringe of Western music (music in the synagogue and in the Russian Orthodox Church), philosophical contemplations, organology, acoustics and the physiology of the human ear and reviews of new works by Czerny, Reicha, Fétis (Bibliographie universelle), Spohr (Symphony no. 4, "Die Weihe der Töne"), Carl Maria von Weber, Auber (La muette de Portici), Carl Loewe, new editions of works by Handel, Nissen's biography of Mozart, etc. and including a number of fine portrait engravings and illustration plates as well as fascinating advertisements for recent musical publications, including of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The most important author of the articles is Gottfried Weber (1779–1839), editor-in-chief of the periodical from 1824 to 1839.