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Every beginner needs a place to begin. For a music lover, what better place to discover more about music than between the pages of another music lover s book? The Classical Music Experience makes it easy by taking you through the history of classical music composer by composer. Adam Duritz, lead singer, Counting Crows There are many books about classical music, but none capture the incredible range of musical styles and sounds as accessibly or in as compelling a way as The Classical Music Experience. The Classical Music Experience tells the stories of forty-two of the world s most celebrated composers, ranging from Bach, Handel, Mozart and Beethoven to Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin and Bernstein. It weaves five hundred years of history and music into a rich tapestry of sound and story unlike any other book of its kind. This is a volume to cherish and to return to again and again as you build your own classical music library and venture out to the symphony hall.

Author Julius H. Jacobson II, MD, is an internationally known vascular surgeon. He is widely regarded as the father of microsurgery for his pioneering work in the reconstruction of small blood vessels. This has directly led to coronary bypass surgery and the re-implantation of limbs and digits. About half of all neurosurgical operations employ the technique. Dr. Jacobson is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and trained at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He is now Director Emeritus of Vascular Surgery and Distinguished Service Professor of Surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He has five degrees, two of them honorary, but alas, none of them in music, one of his greatest loves.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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Part One

Renaissance

Palestrina, Giovanni da (1525--1594)

3

(8)

Missa Papae Marcelli (Mass of Pope Marcellus) ``Gloria''

8

(3)

Baroque Period

Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685--1750)

11

(10)

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048

14

(1)

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for Organ, BWV 538

15

(2)

Recommended Listening---Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for Orchestra, BWV 538

17

(1)

Recommended Listening---Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, (arr) for Orchestra

18

(3)

Handel, George Frideric (1685--1759)

21

(8)

Water Music

25

(1)

``Hallelujah Chorus'' from Messiah

26

(3)

Haydn, Joseph (1732--1809)

29

(8)

Symphony No. 94 in G Major ``Surprise''

32

(1)

Concerto in E-flat Major for Trumpet and Orchestra

33

(1)

Recommended Listening---Symphony No. 100 in G Major ``Military''

34

(3)

Classical Period

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756--1791)

37

(10)

Serenade in G Major, K. 525 ``Eine kleine Nachtmusik''

40

(1)

Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550

41

(2)

Concerto No. 21 in C Major for Piano and Orchestra

43

(2)

Recommended Listening---Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581

45

(2)

Classical/Romantic Periods Overlap

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770--1827)

47

(18)

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 6

52

(2)

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 55 ``Eroica''

54

(2)

Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 ``Choral''

56

(1)

Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 ``Appassionata''

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(1)

Recommended Listening---String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, ``Rasumovsky''

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(2)

Recommended Listening---Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61

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(3)

Recommended Listening---Concerto No. 5 in E-flat for Piano and Orchestra

63

(2)

Schubert, Franz Peter (1797--1828)

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(8)

Recommended Listening---String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 Death and the Maiden

68

(1)

Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 ``The Trout''

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(1)

Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 125 ``Unfinished''

70

(3)

Berlioz, Hector (1803--1869)

73

(6)

Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

77

(2)

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809--1847)

79

(10)

Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56 ``Scottish''

84

(1)

Recommended Listening---Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64

85

(1)

Recommended Listening---Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 ``Italian''

86

(3)

Chopin, Frederic (1810--1849)

89

(6)

Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor

93

(2)

Romantic Period

Schumann, Robert (1810--1856)

95

(6)

Quintet for Piano and Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 44

99

(2)

Strauss, Johann Baptist (1825--1899)

101

(4)

The Blue Danube, Op. 314

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(1)

Liszt, Franz (1811--1886)

105

(6)

Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major for Piano and Orchestra

109

(2)

Wagner, Richard (1813--1883)

111

(10)

Isolde's ``Liebestod'' from Tristan und Isolde

117

(1)

``Bridal Chorus'' from Lohengrin

118

(1)

Recommended Listening---``Ride of the Valkyries'' from Die Walkure

118

(1)

Recommended Listening---``Prelude'' from Das Rheingold

118

(1)

Recommended Listening---The Sailor and Spinner's Choruses from Der fliegende Hollander

118

(3)

Smetana, Bedrich (1824--1884)

121

(6)

``The Moldau'' from Ma vlast

124

(3)

Bruckner, Anton (1824--1896)

127

(6)

Symphony No. 2

132

(1)

Brahms, Johannes (1833--1897)

133

(8)

Academic Festival Overture

135

(1)

Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68

136

(2)

Recommended Listening---Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77

138

(3)

Bizet, Georges (1838--1875)

141

(6)

Orchestral Suite from Carmen

144

(1)

L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 ``Minuetto'' & ``Farandole''

144

(3)

Bruch, Max (1838--1920)

147

(4)

Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 26

150

(1)

Musorgsky, Modest (1839--1881)

151

(8)

Pictures from an Exhibition

154

(1)

``Promenade'' (orch. by Ravel)

154

(1)

``Promenade'' (piano)

154

(1)

``The Great Gate at Kiev'' (orch. by Ravel)

154

(5)

Part Two

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich (1840--1893)

159

(12)

Recommended Listening---Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

162

(1)

Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 23

163

(2)

Recommended Listening---Symphony No. 6 in B Minor ``Pathetique''

165

(2)

The Nutcracker Suite

167

(4)

Dvorak, Antonin (1841--1904)

171

(6)

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 From the New World

174

(3)

Grieg, Edvard (1843--1907)

177

(6)

Concerto for Piano in A Minor, Op. 16

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(1)

Peer Gynt, from Suites No. 1 & 2, Op. 46 & 55

180

(3)

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (1844--1908)

183

(4)

Scheherazade

185

(2)

Elgar, Sir Edward (1857--1934)

187

(6)

Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches, Op. 39

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(1)

March No. 1

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(1)

March No. 4

190

(3)

Modern Period

Mahler, Gustav (1860--1911)

193

(10)

Symphony No. 1

197

(1)

Recommended Listening---Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)

197

(6)

Debussy, Claude (1862--1918)

203

(6)

``Claire de lune'' from Suite Bergamasque

207

(1)

Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un Faune (Prelude for the Afternoon of a Faun)

208

(1)

Strauss, Richard (1864--1949)

209

(6)

Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28

213

(2)

Sibelius, Jean (1865--1957)

215

(6)

Finlandia

218

(1)

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

219

(2)

Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872--1958)

221

(6)

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

224

(1)

Recommended Listening---Fantasia on Greensleeves

224

(3)

Schoenberg, Arnold (1874--1951)

227

(8)

Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4

231

(1)

Recommended Listening---Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16

232

(1)

Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21

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(1)

Recommended Listening---Concerto for Piano, Op. 42

233

(2)

Ives, Charles (1874--1954)

235

(6)

``The Fourth of July'' from A Symphony: New England Holidays

239

(2)

Ravel, Maurice (1875--1937)

241

(8)

Pavane pour une infante defunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess)

246

(1)

Recommended Listening---Bolero

246

(3)

Orff, Carl (1895--1982)

249

(4)

Carmina burana

251

(2)

Bartok, Bela (1881--1945)

253

(6)

Concerto for Orchestra

256

(3)

Stravinsky, Igor (1882--1971)

259

(8)

Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

265

(1)

Recommended Listening---Symphony in Three Movements

265

(2)

Prokofiev, Sergey (1891--1953)

267

(8)

Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25 ``Classical''

272

(1)

Recommended Listening---Love for Three Oranges

273

(1)

Recommended Listening---Lieutenant Kije Suite

273

(1)

Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2, Op. 64

274

(1)

Gershwin, George (1898--1937)

275

(6)

Rhapsody in Blue

277

(1)

Recommended Listening---An American in Paris

278

(3)

Poulenc, Francis (1899--1963)

281

(8)

Recommended Listening---Les Biches

284

(1)

Recommended Listening---Trio for Piano, Oboe, and Bassoon

285

(1)

The Bestiary, or The Procession of Orpheus

286

(1)

Recommended Listening---Le Bal Masque

286

(1)

Gloria

286

(3)

Copland, Aaron (1900--1990)

289

(6)

Appalachian Spring

293

(1)

Recommended Listening---Rodeo

293

(1)

Recommended Listening---Billy the Kid

293

(2)

Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906--1975)

295

(8)

Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

300

(1)

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110

301

(2)

Bernstein, Leonard (1918--1990)

303

(6)

Overture from Candide

307

(1)

Recommended Listening---Suite from West Side Story

308

(1)

Afterword

309

(2)

Appendix A: Works Most Frequently Repeated

311

(1)

Appendix B: Cataloging Your CD Collection

312

(1)

Resources

313

(1)

Index

314

(4)

About the Author

318

(1)

About the Narrator

318

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