TY - BOOK AU - Schonberg,Harold C. TI - The lives of the great composers U1 - 780.92 SCH PY - 1973/// CY - Louisville, Ky. PB - American Printing House for the Blind KW - Composers KW - Biography N1 - 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; Transcribed from: New York : W.W. Norton, 1970 N2 - A brief biography of famous musicians throughout history ER -