The lives and times of the great composers / Michael Steen.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steen, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude
  • Handel (1685-1759)
  • Bach (1685-1750)
  • Haydn (1732-1809)
  • Mozart (1756-91)
  • Beethoven (1770-1827)
  • Schubert (1797-1828)
  • Rossini (1792-1868)
  • Meyerbeer, Bellini, and Donizetti
  • Berlioz (1803-69)
  • Mendelssohn (1809-47)
  • Chopin (1810-49)
  • Schumann (1810-56)
  • Liszt (1811-86)
  • Wagner (1813-83)
  • Offenbach and Johann Strauss
  • Verdi (1813-1901)
  • Brahms (1833-97)
  • Bizet (1838-75)
  • Late-19th-Century France : Franck, Saint-Saëns and Fauré
  • Russian Composers : Glinka and the Five
  • Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
  • Central-European nationalists : Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček and Bartók
  • Scandinavian nationalists : Grieg and Sibelius
  • Mahler (1860-1911)
  • Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
  • Debussy (1862-1918)
  • Puccini (1858-1924)
  • The Russian Sequel
  • England : Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten
  • Postlude.