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505 00 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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The lives of the great composers / Harold C. Schonberg.

Author/creator	Schonberg, Harold C.
Format	Book
Edition	Revised edition
Publication Info	New York : W.W. Norton, ©1981.
Description	653 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
Subjects	Composers--Biography.

Contents	Pioneer of opera: Claudio Monteverdi -- 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: Frederic Chopin -- Virtuoso, charlatan - and prophet: Franz Liszt -- Bourgeois genius: Felix Mendelssohn -- Voice, voice, and more voice: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini -- Spectacle, spectacle, and more spectacle: Meyerbeer, Cherubini, Auber -- Colossus of Italy: Giuseppe Verdi -- Colossus of Germany: Richard Wagner -- Keeper of the flame: Johannes Brahms -- Master of the lied: Hugo Wolf -- Waltz, can-can, and satire: Strauss, Offenbach, Sullivan -- Faust and French opera: From Gounod to Saint-Saens -- Russian nationalism and the mighty five: From Glinka to Rimsky-Korsakov -- Surcharged emotionalism: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- From Bohemia to Spain: European nationalists -- Chromaticism and sensibilite: From Franck to Faure -- 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: Bela Bartok -- The second Viennese school: Schoenberg, Berg, Webern -- Post-1945: the international serial movement.
Abstract	Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-642) and index.
LCCN	80015058
ISBN	0393013022

The lives of the great composers / Harold C. Schonberg.

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