The story of 100 great composers / by Helen L. Kaufmann ; edited under the supervision of Thomas K. Scherman ; [foreword by Thomas K. Scherman].
| Author/creator |
Kaufmann, Helen L. |
| Other author/creator | Scherman, Thomas, editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : Grosset and Dunlap, [1960] |
| Description | 308 pages ; 15 cm |
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| Contents | Learning a new language -- The people and their music -- Giovanno Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) -- Orlandus Lassus (Orlando di Lasso) (1530-1594) -- William Byrd (1543-1623) -- Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) -- Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) -- Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) -- Henry Purcell (1659-1695) -- Francois Couperin (1668-1733) -- Antonio Vivaldi (1669-1741) -- Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1794) -- The Scarlattis: Alessandro Scarlatti (1659-1725); Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) -- George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) -- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) -- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) -- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) -- Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) -- Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) -- Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) -- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) -- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) -- Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) -- Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) -- Michael Ivanovitch Glinka (1803-1857) -- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) -- Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847) -- Frederic Chopin (1809-1849) -- Robert Schumann (1810-1856) -- Franz Liszt (1811-1886) -- Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) -- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) -- Charles Gounod (1818-1893) -- Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) -- Cesar Franck (1822-1890) -- Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) -- Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) -- Johann Strauss, Junior (1825-1899) -- Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) -- Anton Gregorovitch Rubinstein (1829-1894) -- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) -- Alexander Porfyrievitch Borodin (1833-1887) -- Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) -- Max Burch (1838-1920) -- Alexandre Cesar Leopold Georges Bizet (1838-1875) -- Modest Petrovitch Moussorgsky [Mussorgsky] (1835-1881) -- Peter Ilitch Tchaikowsky [Tchaikovsky] (1840-1893) -- Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) -- Jules Massenet (1842-1912) -- Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) -- Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907) -- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff [Korsakov] (1844-1908) -- Gabriel Urbain Faure (1845-1924) -- Paul Marie Vincent Theodore D'Indy (1851-1931) -- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) -- Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) -- Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) -- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) -- Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858-1919) -- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) -- Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) -- Isaac Manuel Francisco Albeniz (1860-1909) -- Edward A. MacDowell (1861-1908) -- Frederick Delius (1862-1934) -- Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) -- Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) -- Richard Strauss (1864-1949) -- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) -- Paul Abraham Dukas (1865-1935) -- Enrique Granados y Campina (1867-1916) -- Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) -- Ralph Vaughan-Williams (1872-1958) -- Sergi Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff [Rachmaninov] (1873-1943) -- Arnold Schonberg (1874-1951) -- Charles Ives (1874-1954) -- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) -- Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) -- Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) -- Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) -- Bela Bartok (1881-1945) -- Georges Enesco (1881-) -- Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky (1882-) -- Zoltan Kodaly (1882-) -- Alban Berg (1885-1935) -- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) -- Serge Prokofieff [Prokofiev] (1891-1953) -- Darius Milhaud (1892-) -- Douglas Moore (1893-) -- Paul Hindemith (1895-) -- Virgil Thompson (1896-) -- George Gershwin (1898-1937) -- Roy Harris (1898-) -- Carlos Chavez (1899-) -- Aaron Copland (1900-) -- Aram Khatchaturian (1902-) -- Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-) -- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-) -- Samuel Barber (1910-) -- Giano-Carlo Menotti (1911-) -- Benjamin Britten (1913-) -- Leonard Bernstein (1918-) -- The unknown composer -- Appendix. The works of one hundred great composers. |
| Abstract | The music of the one hundred composers in this book is heard today in the concert hall and opera house, over the radio, and on the phonograph and high-fidelity equipment. To know something of the personalities and problems of the men who wrote this music is to enjoy it tenfold. Thus it is the intention of this book to introduce you to the great men of music and to increase your listening pleasure. These thumbnail sketches, arranged in chronological order, present the basic facts of each composer's life and his chief contributions to the rich fabric of our musical history. A detailed appendix lists the principal works of each composer. And for quick reference there is an alphabetical index. With its lively and readable style, its compact format, its wealth of information and its ready-reference features, this book will provide new perspectives in listening to great music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 60051519 |
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