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a| Schonberg, Harold C.
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a| The lives of the great composers /
c| Harold C. Schonberg.
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a| Revised edition
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a| New York :
b| W.W. Norton,
c| ©1981.
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a| 653 pages :
b| portraits ;
c| 24 cm
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a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-642) and index.
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t| Pioneer of opera: Claudio Monteverdi --
t| Transfiguration of the Baroque: Johann Sebastian Bach --
t| Composer and impresario: George Frideric Handel --
t| Reformer of opera: Christoph Willibald Gluck --
t| Classicism par excellence: Franz Joseph Haydn --
t| Prodigy from Salzburg: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart --
t| Revolutionary from Bonn: Ludwig van Beethoven --
t| Poet of music: Franz Peter Schubert --
t| Freedom and a new language: Weber and the early Romantics --
t| Romantic exuberance and Classic restraint: Hector Berlioz --
t| Florestan and Eusebius: Robert Schumann --
t| Apotheosis of the piano: Frederic Chopin --
t| Virtuoso, charlatan - and prophet: Franz Liszt --
t| Bourgeois genius: Felix Mendelssohn --
t| Voice, voice, and more voice: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini --
t| Spectacle, spectacle, and more spectacle: Meyerbeer, Cherubini, Auber --
t| Colossus of Italy: Giuseppe Verdi --
t| Colossus of Germany: Richard Wagner --
t| Keeper of the flame: Johannes Brahms --
t| Master of the lied: Hugo Wolf --
t| Waltz, can-can, and satire: Strauss, Offenbach, Sullivan --
t| Faust and French opera: From Gounod to Saint-Saens --
t| Russian nationalism and the mighty five: From Glinka to Rimsky-Korsakov --
t| Surcharged emotionalism: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky --
t| From Bohemia to Spain: European nationalists --
t| Chromaticism and sensibilite: From Franck to Faure --
t| Only for the theater: Giacomo Puccini --
t| Romanticism's long coda: Richard Strauss --
t| Religion, mysticism and retrospection: Bruckner, Mahler, Reger --
t| Symbolism and impressionism: Claude-Achille Debussy --
t| Gallic elegance and the new breed: Maurice Ravel and Les Six --
t| The chameleon: Igor Stravinsky --
t| The English Renaissance: Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams --
t| Mysticism and melancholy: Scriabin and Rachmaninoff --
t| Under the Soviets: Prokofiev and Shostakovich --
t| German neoclassicism: Busoni, Weill, Hindemith --
t| Rise of an American tradition: From Gottschalk to Copland --
t| The uncompromising Hungarian: Bela Bartok --
t| The second Viennese school: Schoenberg, Berg, Webern --
t| Post-1945: the international serial movement.
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a| Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.
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u| 7/13/1986
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