ABSTRACT

A plethora of biographical accounts of some of the contemporary composers and musicians at the turn of the twentieth century.

chapter |9 pages

The Beginnings of Modern Music

chapter |9 pages

Palestrina

chapter |13 pages

The Secularisation of Music

chapter |15 pages

Purcell

chapter |40 pages

Bach and Handel

chapter |17 pages

Gluck

chapter |15 pages

Haydn

chapter |23 pages

Mozart

chapter |35 pages

Beethoven

chapter |80 pages

Weber

chapter |18 pages

Schubert

chapter |14 pages

Berlioz

chapter |18 pages

Mendelssohn and Schumann

chapter |15 pages

Chopin and Liszt

chapter |18 pages

Wagner

chapter |18 pages

Verdi

chapter |15 pages

Brahms

chapter |14 pages

Tchaikovsky

chapter |21 pages

Richard Strauss