The classical music lover's companion to orchestral music / Robert Philip.

Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, from 1700 to 1950, this engaging compani...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Philip, Robert, 1945- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Mily Balakirev
  • Samuel Barber
  • Béla Bartók
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Hector Berlioz
  • Georges Bizet
  • Alexander Borodin
  • Bohuslav Martinú
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Olivier Messiaen
  • Darius Milhaud
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Modest Musorgsky
  • Carl Nielsen
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Max Bruch
  • Anton Bruckner
  • Emmanuel Charbrier
  • Frédéric Fryderyk Chopin
  • Aaron Copland
  • Arcangelo Corelli
  • Claude Debussy
  • Frederick Delius
  • Antonin Dvor̆ák
  • Edward Elgar
  • Manuel de Falla
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • César Franck
  • George Gershwin
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
  • Edvard Grieg
  • George Frideric Handel / Georg Friedrich HăndelL
  • Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Paul Hindemith
  • Gustav Holst
  • Charles Ives
  • Leos̆ Janác̆ek
  • Franz Liszt
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Nikolai Rimskykorsakov
  • Gioachino Rossini
  • Camille Saintsaëns
  • Erik Satie
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Franz Schubert
  • Robert Schumann
  • Alexander Scriabin / Aleksandr Nikolayevich Skryabin
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Bedr̆ich Smetana
  • Rirchard Strauss
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Michael Tippett
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Richard Wagner
  • William Walton
  • Carl Maria von Weber
  • Anton Webern.