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599 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-592) and index. |
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Transfiguration of the Baroque, Johann Sebastian Bach -- Composer and impresario, George Frideric Handel -- Reformer of opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Classicism par excellence, Franz Joseph Haydn -- Prodigy from Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Revolutionary from Bonn, Ludwig van Beethoven -- Poet of music, Franz Peter Schubert -- Freedom and a new language, Weber and the early romantics -- Romantic exuberance and classic restraint, Hector Berlioz -- Florestan and Eusebius, Robert Schumann -- Apotheosis of the piano, Frédéric Chopin -- Virtuoso, charlatan and prophet, Franz Liszt -- Bourgeois genius, Felix Mendelssohn -- Voice, voice, and more voice, Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini -- Spectacle, spectacle, and more spectacle, Meyerbeer, Cherunini, Auber -- Colossus of Italy, Giuseppe Verdi -- Colossus of Germany, Richard Wagner -- Keeper of the flame, Johannes Brahms -- Master of the Lied, Hugo Wolf -- Waltz, Polka, and satire, Strauss, Offenbach, Sullivan -- Faust and French opera, from Gounod to Saint-Saëns -- Russian nationalism and the Mighty Five, from Glinka to Rimsky-Korsakov -- Surcharged emotionalism, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- From Bohemia to Spain, European nationalists -- Chromaticism and sensibilité, from Franck to Fauré -- Only for the theater, Giacomo Puccini -- Romanticism's long coda, Richard Strauss -- Religion, mysticism, and retrospection, Bruckner, Mahler, Reger -- Symbolism and impressionism, Claude-Achille Debussy -- Gallic elegance and the new breed, Maurice Ravel and Les Six -- The chameleon, Igor Stravinsky -- The English renaissance, Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams -- Mysticism and melancholy, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff -- Under the Soviets, Prokofiev and Shostakovich -- German neoclassicism, Busoni, Weill, Hindemith -- Rise of an American tradition, from Gottschalk to Copland -- The uncompromising Hungarian, Béla Bartók -- The second Viennese school, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern. |
| Summary |
Profiles the world's most outstanding composers from Bach to Schoenberg and examines the lives, times, and music of each. |
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Composers -- Biography.
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Composers. (OCoLC)fst00871620
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Composers -- Biography.
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Musicians -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
0393021467 |
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9780393021462 |
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