Das gantze Corpus derer musicirenden Personen : an introduction to German Hofkapellen / Samantha Owens and Barbara M. Reul -- Kingdoms and electorates. The court of Saxony-Dresden / Janice B. Stockigt ; The Saxon court of the kingdom of Poland / Alina Żórawska-Witkowska ; The court of Brandenburg-Prussia / Mary Oleskiewicz ; The Palatine court in Mannheim / Bärbel Pelker -- Duchies. The court of Württemberg-Stuttgart / Samantha Owens ; The court of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg / Bert Siegmund ; The courts of Saxony-Weissenfels, Saxony-Merseburg, and Saxony-Zeitz / Wolfgang Ruf -- Principalities and prince-bishoprics. The court of Anhalt-Zerbst / Barbara M. Reul ; The court of Sondershausen / Michael Maul ; The court of Würzburg / Dieter Kirsch -- Landgraviates and margraviates. The court of Hesse-Darmstadt / Ursula Kramer ; The court of Baden-Durlach in Karlsruhe / Rüdiger Thomsen-Fürst ; The court of Brandenburg-Culmbach-Bayreuth / Rashid-S. Pegah -- Die vornehmste Hof-Tugend : German musicians' reflections on eighteenth-century court life / Steven Zohn.