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Description edit
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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Wagner, classical music, music: Add a description of this character.
- Richard Strauss
- Monteverdi
- Chopin
- Gluck
- Mozart
- Musorgsky
- Beethoven
- Rachmaninoff
- Stravinsky
- Scriabin
- Ives
- Mendelssohn
- Bruckner
- Handel
- Franck
- Liszt
- Bach
- Busoni
- Schoenberg
- Webern
- Schumann
- Grieg
- Haydn
- Boito
- Delius
- Faure
- Schubert
- Wolfgang
- Cherubini
- Rimsky-korsakov
- Reger
- Elgar
- Copland
- Macdowell
- Boulez
- Sullivan
- Don Giovanni
- Bartok
- Brahms
- Hofmannsthal
- Paganini
- Vaughan Williams
- Maeterlinck
- Gottschalk
Setting & Locations edit
- Berlioz
- Paris
- Europe
- Vienna
- Meyerbeer
- England
- London
- Russia
- United States
- Germany
- New York
- France
- Leipzig
- Italy
- Balakirev
- America
- Massenet
- Metropolitan Opera
- Berlin
- Gounod
- Bayreuth
- Venice
- Munich
- Hungary
- Spain
- Dresden
- Smetana
- Moscow
- Romantic
- Rome
- St. Petersburg
- Tristan
- Prague
- Symphony
- Austria
- Weimar
- Hamburg
- Salzburg
- Milan
- Mantua
- Poland
- Goethe
- Born
- Boston
- Wozzeck
- Violin Concerto
- Switzerland
- Netherlands
- Busseto
First Sentence edit
The earliest composer in the history of music to enjoy an international repertory status in our times is Claudio Monteverdi.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Harold C. Schonberg (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1970
ISBN: 0393021467
Page Count: 599
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1970
ISBN: 0393021467
Page Count: 599
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- Dewey: 780.922
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