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Nicholas, Jeremy.

The great composers : the lives and music of 50 great classical composers / Jeremy Nicholas.

London : Quercus, ©2007.

iv, 204 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm

From the romantic agonies of Berlioz to the lonely labours of Anton Bruckner, the lives of the great composers are as varied and multifaceted as the works of creative genius they produced. This book profiles 50 of the greatest composers in the history of classical music.

Composers -- Biography.

Biographies.

Includes index.

Palestrina -- Byrd -- Monteverdi -- Purcell -- Vivaldi -- Rameau -- Handel -- J.S. Bach -- Gluck -- Haydn -- Mozart -- Beethoven -- Weber -- Rossini -- Schubert -- Donizetti -- Bellini -- Berlioz -- Mendelssohn -- Chopin -- Schumann -- Liszt -- Wagner -- Verdi -- Franck -- Smetana -- Bruckner -- J. Strauss -- Brahms -- Saint-Saëns -- Bizet -- Tchaikovsky -- Dvor̆ák -- Grieg -- Elgar -- Puccini -- Mahler -- Debussy -- R. Strauss -- Sibelius -- Vaughan Williams -- Rachmaninov -- Schoenberg -- Ravel -- Bartók -- Stravinsky -- Prokofiev -- Gershwin -- Shostakovich -- Britten.

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