The Lives of the Great Composers

In this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the...
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Author: Harold C. Schonberg
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The Lives of the Great Composers by Schonberg, Harold C.

The Lives of the Great Composers

CHF 61.87

The Lives of the Great Composers

CHF 61.87
Author: Harold C. Schonberg
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and all geniuses, unique as they are, were influenced by their predecessors. Schonberg discusses the lives and works of the foremost figures in classical music, among them Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, the Schumanns, Copland, and Stravinsky, weaving a fabric rich in detail and anecdote. He also includes the creators of light music, such as Gilbert and Sullivan and the Strausses.

Schonberg has extended the volume's coverage to provide informative and clearly written descriptions of the later serialists such as Stockhausen and Carter, the iconoclastic John Cage, the individualistic Messiaen, minimalist composers, the new tonalists, and women composers of all eras, including Mendelssohn Hensel, Chaminade, Smyth, Beach, and Zwilich. Scattered throughout are many changes and additions reflecting musicological findings of the past fifteen years.

Author: Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/17/1997
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.33lbs
Size: 9.62h x 6.38w x 1.74d
ISBN: 9780393038576


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/1997 pg. 84

About the Author
Schonberg, Harold C.: - Harold C. Schonberg, senior New York Times music critic for twenty years, was the first in his field to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1971). He is the author of many articles and eight books, including one on chess. Schonberg lives in New York City.

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