Guide to chamber music / Melvin Berger.
Authoritative, beautifully written guide presents 231 of the most frequently performed pieces of chamber music by 55 composers. For each, the author gives a brief biography, followed by discussions of the individual compositions both their historical and musical contexts and their salient features,...
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New York :
Dodd, Mead & Company,
[1985]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Anton Arensky
- Samuel Barber
- Béla Bartók
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Alban Berg
- Alexander Borodin
- Johannes Brahms
- Benjamin Britten
- Anton Bruckner
- Elliott Carter
- Aaron Copland
- George Crumb
- Ingolf Dahl
- Franz Danzi
- Claude-Achille Debussy
- Jacob Druckman
- Antonin Dvořák
- Gabriel Fauré
- Irving Fine
- César Franck
- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Edvard Grieg
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Paul Hindemith
- Jacques Ibert
- Charles Ives
- Leon Kirchner
- Leo Kraft
- Ezra Laderman
- Witold Lutoslawski
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Olivier Messiaen
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Carl Nielsen
- Walter Piston
- Francis Poulenc
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Maurice Ravel
- Antonin Reicha
- George Rochberg
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Franz Schubert
- Gunther Schuller
- Robert Schumann
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Elie Siegmeister
- Bedřich Smetana
- Igor Stravinsky
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Anton Webern
- Hugo Wolf
- Glossary
- Discography.