Recommended recordings. Creator of modern music : Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) -- Music for use, devotion, and personal profit : Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- "Vast effects with simple means" : George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) -- The "Vienna Four" : an introduction -- "I had to be original" : Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) -- "Right here in my noodle" : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) -- The gift of inevitability : Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- "When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow" : Franz Schubert (1797-1828) -- An unforgettable day in 1836 : Fryderyk Franciszek (Frédéric François) Chopin (1810-1849), Robert Schumann (1810-1856) -- The Italian reformer and the German futurist : Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Richard Wagner (1813-1883) -- The synthesizer : Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) -- The refined radical : Claude Debussy (1862-1918) -- "The public will judge" : Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) -- New languages for a new century : Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Bela Bartók (1881-1945) -- Recommended recordings.
Summary:
The chief classical music critic of "The New York Times" explores the concept of greatness in relation to composers, considering elements of biography, influence, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time.
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