The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music

✍ Scribed by Robert Philip

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 968
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Mily Balakirev (1837–1910)
Samuel Barber (1910–81)
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Hector Berlioz (1803–69)
Georges Bizet (1838–75)
Alexander Borodin (1833–87)
Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
Benjamin Britten (1913–76)
Max Bruch (1838–1920)
Anton Bruckner (1824–96)
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94)
Frédéric (Fryderyk) Chopin (1810–49)
Aaron Copland (1900–90)
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Frederick Delius (1862–1934)
Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904)
Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Manuel De Falla (1876–1946)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
César Franck (1822–90)
George Gershwin (1898–1937)
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–57)
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel) (1685–1759)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
Charles Ives (1874–1954)
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
Franz Liszt (1811–86)
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)
Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91)
Modest Musorgsky (1839–81)
Carl Nielsen (1865–1931)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Robert Schumann (1810–56)
Alexander Scriabin (Aleksandr Nikolayevich Skryabin) (1872–1915)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–75)
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Bedřich Smetana (1824–84)
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93)
Michael Tippett (1905–98)
Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Richard Wagner (1813–83)
William Walton (1902–83)
Carl Maria Von Weber (1786–1826)
Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Endnotes
Index