Great Composers-Great Artists

by Buettner, Stewart; Pauly, Reinhard G.

• ISBN13: 9780931340505
• ISBN10: 0931340500
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Amadeus Pr

Summary

Profiles of famous composers, each including a reproduction of a portrait, e.g., Chopin by Delacroix, Wagner by Renoir, Satie by Picasso.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Martin Luther	p. 16
John Bull	p. 18
Claudio Monteverdi	p. 20
Barbara Strozzi	p. 22
Heinrich Schutz	p. 24
Jean-Baptiste Lully	p. 26
Arcangelo Corelli	p. 28
Henry Purcell	p. 30
Antonio Vivaldi	p. 32
Jean-Philippe Rameau	p. 34
Johann Sebastian Bach	p. 36
George Frideric Handel	p. 38
Domenico Scarlatti	p. 40
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	p. 42
Christoph Willibald Gluck	p. 44
Franz Joseph Haydn	p. 46
John Christian Bach	p. 48
Luigi Boccherini	p. 50
Giovanni Paisiello	p. 52
Domenico Cimarosa	p. 54
Antonio Salieri	p. 56
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	p. 58
Luigi Cherubini	p. 60
Ludwig van Beethoven	p. 62
Niccolo Paganini	p. 66
Gioacchino Rossini	p. 70
Franz Schubert	p. 74
Hector Berlioz	p. 76
Mikhail Glinka	p. 78
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy	p. 80
Frederic Chopin	p. 82
Robert Schumann	p. 84
Franz Liszt	p. 86
Giuseppe Verdi	p. 88
Richard Wagner	p. 90
Charles Gounod	p. 92
Clara Schumann	p. 94
Anton Bruckner	p. 96
Johannes Brahms	p. 98
Modest Mussorgski	p. 100
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	p. 102
Emmanuel Chabrier	p. 104
Arthur Sullivan	p. 106
Edvard Grieg	p. 108
Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov	p. 110
Gabriel Faure	p. 112
Gustav Mahler	p. 114
Claude Debussy	p. 116
Frederick Delius	p. 118
Richard Strauss	p. 120
Jean Sibelius	p. 122
Ferruccio Busoni	p. 124
Erik Satie	p. 126
Arnold Schoenberg	p. 128
Manuel de Falla	p. 132
Carl Ruggles	p. 134
Igor Stravinsky	p. 136
Anton Webern	p. 138
Alban Berg	p. 140
Edgard Varese	p. 142
Serge Prokofiev	p. 144
George Gershwin	p. 146
Francis Poulenc	p. 148
Le Groupe des Six	p. 150
Ernst Krenek	p. 152
John Cage	p. 154
List of Large Plates	p. 157
List of Illustrations	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 167
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