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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: lives of the great composers
  name:
    name part: Schonberg, Harold C.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1997
    edition: 3rd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 653 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
  table of 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. Joseph Haydn -- Prodigy from Salzburg. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Revolutionary from Bonn. Ludwig Van Beethoven -- Poet of music. Franz 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. Frédérick 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-Sëns -- Russian nationalism and the mighty five. From Glinka to Rimsky-Korsakov -- Surcharged emotionalism. Pyotr 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 -- Sympolism and impressionism. Claude 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 -- The internaitonal serial movement…
  note: Harold C. Schonberg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [621]-635) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Composers
    genre: Biography
  classification: ML390 .S393 1997
  classification: 780/.92/2 B
  identifier: 0393038572
  identifier: 96013308
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 960307
    record change date: 20151006063033.0
    record identifier: in00001352544