Title:
The lives and times of the great composers
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Presents a comprehensive anthology of great classical composers spanning three hundred fifty years of European history and includes biographical sketches on Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Tchaikovsky, and many more.
Other Title:
Great composers
Live & times of the great composers
Year Published:
2005
Physical Description:
viii, 984 p. : ill.
Note:
Originally published: UK : Icon Books, 2003.
50.00
Contents:
Prelude -- Handel (1685-1759) -- Bach (1685-1750) -- Haydn (1732-1809) -- Mozart (1756-91) -- Beethoven (1770-1827) -- Schubert (1797-1828) -- Rossini (1792-1868) -- Meyerbeer, Bellini, and Donizetti -- Berlioz (1803-69) -- Mendelssohn (1809-47) -- Chopin (1810-49) -- Schumann (1810-56) -- Liszt (1811-86) -- Wagner (1813-83) -- Offenbach and Johann Strauss -- Verdi (1813-1901) -- Brahms (1833-97) -- Bizet (1838-75) -- Late-19th-Century France : Franck, Saint-Saëns and Fauré -- Russian Composers : Glinka and the Five -- Tchaikovsky (1840-93) -- Central-European nationalists : Smetana, Dvorak, Janácek and Bartók -- Scandinavian nationalists : Grieg and Sibelius -- Mahler (1860-1911) -- Richard Strauss (1864-1949) -- Debussy (1862-1918) -- Puccini (1858-1924) -- The Russian Sequel -- England : Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten -- Postlude.
Subject:
ISBN:
9781840464856
9781840466799
Publisher:
Thriplow, Cambridge : Icon Books, 2005.
