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Isaac Albéniz -- Anton Stepanovich Arensky -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Mily Alexeievitch Balakirev-- Samuel Barber -- Béla Bartók -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Arthur Benjamin -- Robert Russell Bennett -- Hector Berlioz -- Leonard Bernstein -- Georges Bizet -- Marc Blitzstein -- Ernest Bloch -- Luigi Boccherini -- Alexander Borodin -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Max Bruch -- Anton Bruckner -- Ferruccio Busoni -- John Alden Carpenter -- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco -- Emmanuel Chabrier -- George Whitefield Chadwick -- Ernest Chausson -- Carlos Chávez -- Luigi Cherubini -- Frédéric Chopin -- Muzio Clementi -- Frederick Shepherd Converse -- Aaron Copland -- Arcangelo Corelli -- Francois Couperin -- Henry Cowell -- Paul Creston -- Claude Debussy -- Frederick Delius -- Norman Dello Joio -- David Diamond -- Ernst von Dohnányi -- Paul Dukas -- Anton Dvorak -- Edward Elgar -- Georges Enesco -- Manuel de Falla -- Gabriel Fauré -- Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez -- Arthur Foote -- Lukas Foss -- César Franck -- George Gershwin -- Henry F. Gilbert -- Alexander Glazunov -- Reinhold Moritzovich Glière -- Michail Ivanovitch Glinka -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Karl Goldmark -- Morton Gould -- Edvard Grieg -- Charles Tomlinson Griffes -- Louis Gruenberg -- Henry Hadley -- George Frederick Handel -- Howard Hanson -- Roy Harris -- Joseph Haydn -- Bernard Herrmann -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Arthur Honegger -- Engelbert Humperdinck -- Jacques Ibert -- Vincent d'Indy -- Leos Janacek -- Werner Josten -- Dmitri Kabalevsky -- Jerome Kern -- Aram Khachaturian -- |
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Tikhon Khrennikov -- Zoltán Kodály -- Ernst Krenek -- Édouard Lalo -- Anatol Lyadov [Liadov] -- Franz Liszt -- Charles Martin Loeffler -- Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Edward MacDowell -- Gustav Mahler -- Bohuslav Martinu -- Daniel Gregory Mason -- Harl McDonald -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Gian-Carlo Menotti -- Nikolai Miaskovskii [Miaskovsky/Myaskovsky] -- Darius Milhaud -- Douglas Moore -- Modest Mussorgsky -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Otto Nicolai -- Niccolò Paganini -- John Knowles Paine -- Hans Pfitzner -- Walter Piston -- Francis Poulenc -- Serge Prokofiev -- Henry Purcell -- Sergei Rachmaninoff [Rachmaninov] -- Maurice Ravel -- Ottorino Respighi -- Silvestre Revueltas -- Wallingford Riegger -- Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov -- Manuel Rosenthal -- Gioacchino Rossini -- Albert Roussel -- Anton Rubinstein -- Charles Camille Saint-Saens -- Pedro Sanjuan -- Ernest Schelling -- Arnold Schonberg -- Franz Schubert -- William Schuman -- Robert Schumann -- Alexander Scriabin -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Elie Siegmeister -- Bedrich Smetana -- David Stanley Smith -- Leo Sowerby -- Louis Spohr -- William Grant Still -- Johann Strauss -- Richard Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky -- Franz von Suppé -- Karol Szymanowski -- Alexandre Tansman -- Giuseppe Tartini -- Deems Taylor -- Randall Thompson -- Virgil Thomson -- Ernst Toch -- Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky [Tchaikovsky] -- Joaquin Turina -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Tomas Luis de Victoria -- Henri Vieuxtemps -- Heitor Villa-Lobos -- Giovanni Battista Viotti -- Tommaso Antonio Vitali -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Richard Wagner -- William Walton -- "Peter Warlock" (Philip Heseltine) -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Jaromir Weinberger -- Emerson Whithorne -- Henri Wieniawski -- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. |
| Abstract |
Program notes written for the New York Philhamonic-Symphony Society's concerts in the 1940s. They emphasize little-known anecdotes and details of composer's lives, and the process that each composer went through in composing a musical composition. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #106A.6. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 849-852) and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011 |
