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Volume 1. Part I. Before Bach -- Part II. The composers and their music. Johann Sebastian Bach ; Samuel Barber ; Béla Bartók ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Alban Berg ; Hector Berlioz ; Georges Bizet ; Ernest Bloch ; Alexander Borodin ; Johannes Brahms ; Benjamin Britten ; Anton Bruckner ; Ernest Chausson ; Frédéric Chopin ; Aaron Copland ; Claude Debussy ; Frederick Delius ; Ernst von Dohnányi ; Gaetano Donizetti ; Paul Dukas ; Antonín Dvořák ; Sir Edward Elgar ; Georges Enesco ; Manuel de Falla ; Gabriel Fauré ; César Franck ; George Gershwin ; Christoph Willibald Gluck ; Charles Gounod ; Edvard Grieg ; George Frideric Handel ; Howard Hanson ; Roy Harris ; Joseph Haydn ; Paul Hindemith ; Arthur Honegger ; Vincent d'Indy ; Aram Khatchaturian ; Zoltán Kodály ; Edouard Lalo ; Ruggiero Leoncavallo ; Franz Liszt ; Gustav Mahler ; Pietro Mascagni ; Jules Massenet ; Felix Mendelssohn ; Gian-Carlo Menotti ; Giacomo Meyerbeer. |
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Volume 2. Part II. Darius Milhaud ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Modest Mussorgsky ; Jacques Offenbach ; Niccolò Paganini ; Serge Prokofiev ; Giacomo Puccini ; Serge Rachmaninoff ; Maurice Ravel ; Ottorino Respighi ; Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov ; Gioacchino Rossini ; Camille Saint-Saëns ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Franz Schubert ; Robert Schumann ; Alexander Scriabin ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Jean Sibelius ; Bedřich Smetana ; Richard Strauss ; Igor Stravinsky ; Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky ; Ralph Vaughan Williams ; Giuseppi Verdi ; Heito Villa-Lobos ; Richard Wagner ; William Walton ; Karl Maria von Weber ; Hugo Wolf -- Part III. A brief history of music since Bach -- Part IV. One hundred basic works for the record library (with recommended recordings) -- Part V. The anatomy of the symphony orchestra -- Part VI. A dictionary of musical forms -- Part VII. A glossary of musical terms. |
| Abstract |
This book is about the foremost composers of the past and present (seventy-eight in number) and their music. Here will be found exhaustive biographies not only of the giant figures but also of secondary composers about whom biographical and critical material is not so readily accessible; thirty contemporaries are included in the gallery of composers, among them seven representative Americans. |
| General note | "One hundred basic works for the record library": pages 917-926. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 965-978) and index. |
| LCCN | 62008097 |
