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The gift of music : great composers and their influence

Examines the lives, philosophies, and music of the great composers
Print Book, English, ©1995
Crossway Books, Wheaton, Ill., ©1995
Music Religious aspects
317 pages ; 23 cm
9780891078692, 089107869X
32820672
Introduction: Psalms in western music history
Schütz: 1585-1672
Vivaldi: 1678-1741
Bach: 1685-1750
Handel: 1685-1759
Haydn: 1732-1809
Mozart: 1756-1791
Beethoven: 1770-1827
Rossini: 1792-1868
Schubert: 1797-1828
Strauss family: nineteenth century
Berlioz: 1803-1869
Mendelssohn: 1809-1847
Chopin: 1810-1849
Robert Schumann: 1810-1856, Clara Schumann: 1819-1896
Liszt: 1811-1886
Wagner: 1813-1883
Verdi: 1813-1901
Bruckner: 1824-1896
Brahms: 1833-1897
Saint-Saëns: 1835-1921
Tchaikovsky: 1840-1893
Dvorak: 1841-1904
Fauré: 1845-1924
Puccini: 1858-1924
Mahler: 1860-1911
Debussy: 1862-1918
Delius: 1862-1934
Richard Strauss: 1864-1949
Sibelius: 1865-1957
Joplin: 1868-1917. Vaughan Williams: 1872-1958, Britten: 1913-1976
Rachmaninoff: 1873-1943
Schoenberg: 1874-1951
Ives: 1874-1954
Ravel: 1875-1937
Falla: 1876-1946, Albéniz: 1860-1909, Granados: 1867-1916
Bartók: 1881-1945
Stravinsky: 1882-1971
Prokofiev: 1891-1953
Gershwin: 1898-1937
Poulenc: 1899-1963
Shostakovich: 1906-1975
Shakespeare's influence on great composers
Christmas carols
"Expanded & revised"--Cover