Download or read book Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers written by Patrick Kavanaugh and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
Download or read book Secret Lives of Great Composers written by Elizabeth Lunday and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover little-known stories from music history—including murder, riots, and heartbreak—in this entertaining tour through the fascinating (and surprising) lives of classical music masters With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Gioachino Rossini (draft-dodging womanizer) to Johann Sebastian Bach (jailbird) to Richard Wagner (alleged cross-dresser), Secret Lives of Great Composers recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international music. Here, you’ll learn that Edward Elgar dabbled with explosives; that John Cage was obsessed with fungus; that Berlioz plotted murder; and that Giacomo Puccini stole his church’s organ pipes and sold them as scrap metal so he could buy cigarettes. This is one music history lesson you’ll never forget!
Download or read book Meet the Great Composers Bk 1 written by Maurice Hinson and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information on 17 composers who range from the Baroque period to the Contemporary period. Book contains a picture with relevant facts and suggested listening, a brief biography, a study of his music (or time he lived) and a question and answer page for each composer. The accompanying CD includes the suggested listening for each composer; the activity sheets contain the picture with facts and question and answer page for each composer in a reproducible format.
Download or read book The Lives of the Great Composers written by Harold C. Schonberg and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.
Download or read book The Great Composers written by Wendy Thompson and published by Lorenz Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new authoritative reference provides an illustrated guide to the most influential western composers of classical music: the ones who have defined or developed particular styles of composition, and who have created for themselves a significant place in music history.
Download or read book The A Z of Classical Composers written by Peter Gammond and published by Quadrillion Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 170 biographies which profile the lives and music of some of history's finest classical composers.
Download or read book Schubert The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers written by Peggy Woodford and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schubert died at the age of thirty-one, in obscurity, his genius unrecognised except by a few friends. Today he is acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all times. His nine symphonies include what is probably the most famous of all symphonies - The Unfinished- and his chamber music, the best loved of all quintets - The Trout. Perhaps his most impressive accomplishment was the composition of over six hundred exquisite songs, including the Schöne Mullerin and Winterreise song cycles, which never cease to delight audiences. In this new biography, the author traces the life and times of Schubert, the development of his music and the political and social climate of Vienne in the years following the Congress of 1814. Documentation of the period, Schubert's own letters and the recollections of his friends help bring Schubert's time alive. The text is completed with a number of facsimile reproductions of Schubert's manuscripts and published editions.
Download or read book Rachmaninoff written by Robert Matthew-Walker and published by Cherry Lane Music Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Download or read book A Taste for the Classics written by Patrick Kavanaugh and published by Sparrow Corporation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stravinsky The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers written by Neil Wenborn and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the remarkable course of a creative career which spanned the drawing rooms of the Imperial Russia and the social ferment of 1960s America, and serve to establish Stravinsky not only as the most celebrated composer of his time but also as one of the defining forces of twentieth-century culture.
Download or read book Rachmaninoff The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers written by Matthew Robert Walker and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography, Robert Walker skilfully blends the fascinating story of Rachmaninoff's life with the historical background of his times. The author shows, too, how outside influences- the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the Great War, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression- very much affected Rachmaninoff as an artist. As well as the use of contemporary accounts, letters and reminiscences, the author has obtained recollections first-hand from distinguished musicians who knew the composer initmately and worked closely with him. The Book is illustrated throughout with photographs of the time, which are as fascinating as the text.
Download or read book Bach The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers written by Tim Dowley and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and fascinating biography of the most outstanding composer in musical history. Covering Bach's earliest efforst in Eisenach, his cultural inheritance, his series of posts as organist or musician, and his stormy career in Leipzig, Bach: The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers traces the significant stages of development in his family and his music.
Download or read book Ravel The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers written by James Burnett and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ir has been said that no music amplifies the french ideals of precision and good taste better than the work of Maurice Ravel, yet his background could scarecly have been more cosmopolitan. The son of a Swiss father and a Basque mother, he was born near St. Jean de Luz in 1875; he died in Paris at the age of sixty-two. His primary inspiration, and in consequence the character of his best music, came from art and life. He was exceptionally sensitive to the new current of thought and the aesthetic changes in the Arts following the First World War. Indeed, the music of Ravel is an accuarate reflection of the man himself. This lavishly illustrated book which sets the work and achievements of Ravel in the context of the events of his time, will appeal to the general music lover and also to the serious student.
Download or read book Puccini The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers written by Peter Southwell-Sander and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Fascinating biography chronicles Puccini's life and times, with dozens of photographs and illustrations of the period. His Musical heritage, his scandalous elopement with Elvira, his relationship with Caruso and the dramas of his own life and unfolded in loving detail.
Download or read book The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers Debussy written by Paul Holmes and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated throughout, this fascinating biography sets Debussy's musical revolution in the context of his times. It will be invaluable to musicians and concert-goers alike.
Download or read book The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers Schumann written by Tim Dowley and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Download or read book Stories of the Great Composers Book CD written by Maurice Hinson and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is important that young students learn about the lives of the great composers who have enriched our lives with beautiful music. The 12 units in Stories of the Great Composers give elementary students a glimpse into each composer's life, character and music. Includes a CD recording of the suggested listening, featuring one composition by each composer.
