The lives of the great composers
Schonberg, Harold C.
The lives of the great composers [contracted braille] / by Harold C. Schonberg. - Louisville, Ky. : American Printing House for the Blind, 1973. - 9 v. of contracted braille.
Contracted braille.
Index; v. 9.
Transfiguration of the Baroque, Johann Sebastian Bach --
Composer and impresario, George Frideric Handel --
Reformer of opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck --
Classicism par excellence, Franz Joseph Haydn --
Prodigy from Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart --
Revolutionary from Bonn, Ludwig van Beethoven --
Poet of music, Franz Peter Schubert --
Freedom and a new language, Weber and the early romantics --
Romantic exuberance and classic restraint, Hector Berlioz --
Florestan and Eusebius, Robert Schumann --
Apotheosis of the piano, Frederic Chopin --
Virtuoso, charlatan and prophet, Franz Liszt --
Bourgeois genius, Felix Mendelssohn --
Voice, voice, and more voice, Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini --
Spectacle, spectacle, and more spectacle, Meyerbeer, Cherunini, Auber --
Colossus of Italy, Giuseppe Verdi --
Colossus of Germany, Richard Wagner --
Keeper of the flame, Johannes Brahms --
Master of the Lied, Hugo Wolf --
Waltz, Polka, and satire, Strauss, Offenbach, Sullivan --
Faust and French opera, from Gounod to Saint-Saens --
Russian nationalism and the mighty five, from Glinka to Rimsky-Korsakov --
Surcharged emotionalism, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky --
From Bohemia to Spain, European nationalists --
Chromaticism and sensibilite, from Franck to Faure --
Only for the theater, Giacomo Puccini --
Romanticism's long coda, Richard Strauss --
Religion, mysticism, and retrospection, Bruckner, Mahler, Reger --
Symbolism and impressionism, Claude-Achille Debussy --
Gallic elegance and the new breed, Maurice Ravel and les six --
The chameleon, Igor Stravinsky --
The English renaissance, Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams --
Mysticism and melancholy, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff --
Under the Soviets, Prokofiev and Shostakovich --
German neoclassicism, Busoni, Weill, Hindemith --
Rise of an American tradition, from Gottschalk to Copland --
The uncompromising Hungarian, Bela Bartok --
The second Viennese school, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern.
A brief biography of famous musicians throughout history.
Transcribed from: New York : W.W. Norton, 1970.
BR1993
Composers--Biography.
Biography.
780.92 SCH
The lives of the great composers [contracted braille] / by Harold C. Schonberg. - Louisville, Ky. : American Printing House for the Blind, 1973. - 9 v. of contracted braille.
Contracted braille.
Index; v. 9.
Transfiguration of the Baroque, Johann Sebastian Bach --
Composer and impresario, George Frideric Handel --
Reformer of opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck --
Classicism par excellence, Franz Joseph Haydn --
Prodigy from Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart --
Revolutionary from Bonn, Ludwig van Beethoven --
Poet of music, Franz Peter Schubert --
Freedom and a new language, Weber and the early romantics --
Romantic exuberance and classic restraint, Hector Berlioz --
Florestan and Eusebius, Robert Schumann --
Apotheosis of the piano, Frederic Chopin --
Virtuoso, charlatan and prophet, Franz Liszt --
Bourgeois genius, Felix Mendelssohn --
Voice, voice, and more voice, Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini --
Spectacle, spectacle, and more spectacle, Meyerbeer, Cherunini, Auber --
Colossus of Italy, Giuseppe Verdi --
Colossus of Germany, Richard Wagner --
Keeper of the flame, Johannes Brahms --
Master of the Lied, Hugo Wolf --
Waltz, Polka, and satire, Strauss, Offenbach, Sullivan --
Faust and French opera, from Gounod to Saint-Saens --
Russian nationalism and the mighty five, from Glinka to Rimsky-Korsakov --
Surcharged emotionalism, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky --
From Bohemia to Spain, European nationalists --
Chromaticism and sensibilite, from Franck to Faure --
Only for the theater, Giacomo Puccini --
Romanticism's long coda, Richard Strauss --
Religion, mysticism, and retrospection, Bruckner, Mahler, Reger --
Symbolism and impressionism, Claude-Achille Debussy --
Gallic elegance and the new breed, Maurice Ravel and les six --
The chameleon, Igor Stravinsky --
The English renaissance, Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams --
Mysticism and melancholy, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff --
Under the Soviets, Prokofiev and Shostakovich --
German neoclassicism, Busoni, Weill, Hindemith --
Rise of an American tradition, from Gottschalk to Copland --
The uncompromising Hungarian, Bela Bartok --
The second Viennese school, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern.
A brief biography of famous musicians throughout history.
Transcribed from: New York : W.W. Norton, 1970.
BR1993
Composers--Biography.
Biography.
780.92 SCH