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

Author/creator	Schonberg, Harold C. author.
Format	Book
Edition	[First edition].
Publication Info	New York : W. W. Norton, [1970]
Description	599 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Subjects	Composers--Biography.

Series	Robert Morris Collection Robert Morris Collection. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents	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, and 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, polka, 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 -- Postlude.
Abstract	Traces the consecutive line of composers from Bach to Schoenberg through a series of biographical chapters. A final chapter brings matters up to date with a discussion of aspects and trends after 1945.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-592) and index.
LCCN	73116112
ISBN	0393021467

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

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