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Composers' Gallery
"In this volume of 40 compact biographies the reader meets some of the most interesting and significant characters in modern music. Concise and informative, each sketch is alive with anecdotes and vitally important opinions expressed by the biographees, with helpful comments on their more important works. To music lovers, professional or amateur, this attractive work by the author of that highly-successful book Conductors' gallery cannot fail to be of of outstanding interest."--Jacket.
The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
"Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote thirty-nine operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which transformed Italian opera, and radically altered the course of opera in France." "His retirement from operatic composition in 1829, at the age of 37, was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man. In reality, political events and a series of debilitating illnesses were the determining factors. After drafting the Stabat mater in 1832, Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of twenty-five years, before the clouds lift...
Composers on Record
This index includes mainly composers of 'serious' music who are not to be found in any reference work, and others whose names have not appeared in any reference work since the last century.
Music from Within
A warm, personal memoir of one of Canada's best-known composers, this volume chronicles the remarkable life of Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté. Though she achieved recognition in Europe she really came into her own in the last stage of her life when she and her second husband, Ferdinand Eckhardt, emigrated to Winnipeg.
Lives of the Great Composers 3e
Schonberg brings the reader closer to an identification with the composers he discusses and thus closer to an understanding of their music. The book consequently places more emphasis on biographical details and less upon technical analysis of the music.
Violin Music by Women Composers
Provides convenient access to a body of solo, recital, concerto, and chamber music literature that will enrich the repertoire of the violinist. Includes a biographies section which briefly summarizes the life and work of women composers from the Baroque to 20th century American and International. The music section identifies and describes compositions in 12 genre categories. The discography organizes recorded works by composer and by title. Reference and Research Book News This bibliography enhances the repertoire of the violinist by providing convenient access to a new solo recital, concerto, and chamber music literature: the music of women composers. While other source books exist in which...
Latin American Classical Composers
Although the authors of this condensed biographical dictionary claim to have restricted the entries to 'composers who have written in the classical or cultivated tradition, ' a few composers of salon music are also included. Compiles brief biographical information on 377 composers from Argentina, 3
