Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Westport Conn Greenwood Press 1978 c1955

Chamber and Solo Instrument Music: (The Guide to Long-Playing Records)

Arts & Photography

SCHONBERG, Harold C.

Music

Praeger

This history of classical music, from Bach to Schoenberg, not only unravels the evolutionary patterns of musical development, but reveals the composers themselves - their lives and states of mind, their private defeats and public triumphs. From Schumann, who believed angels were dictating his harmonies, to J.S. Bach who had a cantata deadline to meet every Sunday in order to feed nine children, we can discern the various sources of inspiration. This book is designed to be used as a reference to many of the major composers and their music, but is also a source of relevant biographical detail.

The Lives of the Great Composers

Biographies & Memoirs

ABACUS +

In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg traces the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however great, who have not been influenced by their predecessors. The great composers are here presented as human beings who lived and related to the real world. All of the important figures - Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Mahler, and many others - are included, their lives woven into a fabric rich in detail and anecdote. For this new edition, Schonberg has extended the book's coverage with informative and astute descriptions of later composers. What has not been changed is the character of the book, which remains an object of delight to all music lovers.

The Lives Of The Great Composers: Third Edition

Humor & Entertainment

1981 W.W. Norton hardcover, Harold C. Schonberg (The Lives of the Great Composers). In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg traces the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. .

Arts & Literature

Norton

Discusses the early development of chess and the characteristics of a grandmaster and profiles personalities who have become a part of this game's elite

Grandmasters of Chess

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

This history of classical music, from Bach to Schoenberg, not only unravels the evolutionary patterns of musical development, but reveals the composers themselves - their lives and states of mind, their private defeats and public triumphs. From Schumann, who believed angels were dictating his harmonies, to J.S. Bach who had a cantata deadline to meet every Sunday in order to feed nine children, we can discern the various sources of inspiration. This book is designed to be used as a reference to many of the major composers and their music, but is also a source of relevant biographical detail.

The Lives Of The Great Composers

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

W.W.Norton

An updated and expanded edition of this perennial favorite, tracing the line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s. In this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and all geniuses, unique as they are, were influenced by their predecessors. Schonberg discusses the lives and works of the foremost figures in classical music, among them Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, the Schumanns, Copland, and Stravinsky, weaving a fabric rich in detail and anecdote. He also includes the creators of light music, such as Gilbert and Sullivan and the Strausses. Schonberg has extended the volume's coverage to provide informative and clearly written descriptions of the later serialists such as Stockhausen and Carter, the iconoclastic John Cage, the individualistic Messiaen, minimalist composers, the new tonalists, and women composers of all eras, including Mendelssohn Hensel, Chaminade, Smyth, Beach, and Zwilich. Scattered throughout are many changes and additions reflecting musicological findings of the past fifteen years. Photographs

W.W.Norton&Company

Grandmasters of Chess Very good condition, solid, sturdy, hardcover is still with dust jacket, See Cover Photo for condition of dust jacket

Grandmasters of chess,

J.B. Lippincott Co.

The Great Conductors

Victor Gollancz

Great Pianists

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Chamber and Solo Instrument Music: (The Guide to Long-Playing Records)

The Lives of the Great Composers

The Lives Of The Great Composers: Third Edition

The Lives of the Great Composers

Grandmasters of Chess

The Lives Of The Great Composers

The Lives of the Great Composers

Grandmasters of chess,

The Great Conductors

Great Pianists