Program and biographical notes, a dictionary of terms, and sources of the quotations in English. A collection of 68 pieces, each inspired by the work of a composer from Monteverdi to Bernstein.
Contents:
Baroque opera's first champion / Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi -- Il prete rosso / Antonio Lucio Vivaldi -- The lullist of Magdeburg / Georg Philipp Telemann -- The great bear / Geroge Frideric Handel -- The old wig / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Papa / Franz Joseph Haydn -- Wolfferl / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- The Spaniard / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Krautsalat / Carl Maria von Weber -- The swan of Pesaro / Gioacchino Antonio Rossini -- Schwammerl / Franz Peter Schubert -- Thw swan of Catania / Vincenzo Bellini -- The eccentric prankster / Louis-Hector Berlioz -- Composer to the island of Ceylon / Felix Jalob Ludwig Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- The poet of the piano / Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin -- Florestan and Eusebius / Robert Schumann -- The Abbé / Franz Ferencz Liszt -- The swan of Busseto / Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi -- The sorcerer of Bayreuth / Wilhelm Richard Wagner -- The father of Czech music / Bedřich Friedrich Smetana -- Der Adagio-Komponist / Joseph Anton Bruckner -- The waltz king / Johann Strauss Jr. -- Young eagle / Johannes Brahms -- Sannois / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Gaston de Betzi / Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet -- Modinka / Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky -- Petya / Pytor Ilych Tchaikovsky -- Tonik / Antonín Leopold Dvořák -- Chopin of the north / Edvard Hagerup Grieg -- Kachkist / Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov -- The master of charms / Gabriel Urbain Fauré -- The lion with the white mane / Leoš Eugen Janáček -- Lord Broadheath, Baronet / Edward William Elgar -- Duck hunger of Torre del Lago / Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini -- Sommerkomponist / Gustav Mahler -- Musicien francais / Achille-Claude Debussy -- Wizard of the orchestra / Richard Georg Strauss -- The sage of Jarrenpaa / Jean Julius Christian Sibelius -- The symphonist / Carl August Nielsen -- The arceuillist / Erik Alfred Leslie Satie -- The Russian Chopin / Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin -- Uncle Ralph / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Ja Sam / Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov -- Dasher / Charles Edward Ives -- The conservative revolutionary / Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg -- Mon maitre / Joseph Maurice Ravel -- Don Manuel / Manuel de Falla -- Compositore di Roma / Ottorino Respighi -- The passionate duelist / Béla Bartók -- Modernsly / Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky -- The scholarly virtuoso / Zoltán Kodály -- The aphoristic serialist / Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern -- The Brazilian impressionist / Heitor Villa-Lobos -- William Berty / Jacques François Antonie Ibert -- Seryozha / Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev -- The parisienne in America / Darius Milhaud -- Hindy / Paul Hindemith -- Mr. Music / George Gershwin -- L'enfant terrible des six / Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc -- The dean of American composers / Aaron Copland -- The wizard of French music / Eugéne Joseph Bozza -- Mitya / Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich -- The mysitcal ornithologist / Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen -- America's lyrical romantic / Samuel Osmond Barber -- Le francais, Francaix / Jean René Désiré Françaix -- The baron of Suffolk / Edward Benjamin Britten -- The goucho from Buenos Aires / Alberto Evaristo Ginastera -- Lenny / Leonard Bernstein.
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