This article was originally published as Il testamento del secolo: Evoluzione della Musica., Cronaca Musicale, Milan, 15 March, 1900, as an address given at the Teatro Goldoni in Venice.
The English edition presented here was published in The Century Library of Music 16: 517-540. New York, 1901, and later in
the International Library of Music for Home and Studio, vol. 2. New York: The University Society, 1925. Pages 441-463.