concert-pitches

Updated: April 30, 2025

There is no German concert-pitch, but there are dozens of different German concert-pitches a Viennese, a Berlin, a Dresden, a Frankfurt pitch, etc., so that in the light of such distinctions even the above-mentioned division into northern and southern tone appears like a very general hypothesis. The Parisian pitch and the French pitch, on the contrary, are accepted without caviling as synonymous.

- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English