Chamber music
Subtitle: an extensive guide for listeners
By: Lucy Miller Murray
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9781442243422; 9781442243439
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Music appreciation; Analysis, appreciation; Chamber music; Bio-bibliography
Description: Covering over 500 works, Murray surveys the historical and musical impact of some 130 composers, 20 of them living. Entries include a brief introduction to the composer's life and work. Brief spotlight contributions from well-known figures in the chamber music world focus on the performance experience or offer other special knowledge of the works.
Notes: "List of composers and works": pages xv-xxxiii.
Table of contents: title: Charles Abramovic (b.1955); title: John Adams (b.1947); title: Thomas Adès (b.1971); title: George Antheil (1900-1959); title: Anton Arensky (1861-1906); title: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806-1826); title: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750); title: Samuel Barber (1910-1981); title: Béla Bartók (1881-1945); title: Arnold Bax (1883-1953); title: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827); title: Alban Berg (1885-1935); title: Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990); title: Arthur Bliss (1891-1975); title: Ernest Bloch (1880-1959); title: Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805); title: Alexander Borodin (1833-1887); title: Pierre Boulez (b.1925); title: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897); title: Frank Bridge (1879-1941); title: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976); title: Michael Brown (b. 1987); title: Max Bruch (1838-1920); title: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896); title: Elliott Carter (1908-2012); title: Ernest Chausson (1855-1899); title: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849); title: Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979); title: Aaron Copland (1900-1990); title: John Corigliano (b.1938); title: Claude Debussy (1862-1918); title: Ernö Dohnányi (1877-1960); title: Paquito d'Rivera (b.1948); title: Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904); title: Edward Elgar (1857-1934); title: Georges Enesco (1881-1955); title: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924); title: Gerald Finzi (1901-1956); title: Arthur Foote (1853-1937); title: Lukas Foss (1922-2009); title: César Franck (1822-1890); title: Eduard Franck (1817-1893); title: Hans Gál (1890-1987); title: Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941); title: George Gershwin (1898-1937); title: Jeremy Gill (b.1975); title: Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983); title: Philip Glass (b.1937); title: Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936); title: Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857); title: John Golland (1942-1993); title: Eugene Gossens (1893-1962); title: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907); title: Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935); title: Lou Harrison (1917-2003); title: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809); title: Jake Heggie (b.1961); title: Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975); title: Jennifer Higdon (b.1962); title: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963); title: Lee Hoiby (1926-2011); title: Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837); title: Jacques Ibert (1890-1962); title: Charles Ives (1874-1954); title: Leoš Janáček (1854-1928); title: Leon Kirchner (1919-2009); title: Gideon Klein (1919-1945); title: Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967); title: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957); title: Hans Krása (1899-1944); title: György Kurtág (b.1926); title: György Ligeti (1923-2006); title: Franz Liszt (1811-1886); title: Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935); title: Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994); title: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911); title: Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959); title: Erkki Melartin (1875-1937); title: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847); title: Olivier Messiaen (1898-1992); title: Darius Milhaud (1892-1974); title: Paul Moravec (b.1957); title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791); title: Carl Nielsen (1865-1931); title: Marcello Panni (b.1940); title: Krzysztof Penderecki (b.1933); title: Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992); title: Walter Piston (1894-1976); title: Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831); title: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963); title: Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953); title: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924); title: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943); title: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937); title: Max Reger (1873-1916); title: Anton Reicha (1770-1836); title: Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936); title: Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868); title: Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) (b.1971); title: Christopher Rouse (b.1941); title: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921); title: R. Murray Schafer (b.1933); title: Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998); title: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951); title: Paul Schoenfield (b.1947); title: Franz Schubert (1797-1828); title: Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942); title: Clara Schumann (1819-1896); title: Robert Schumann (1810-1856); title: Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953); title: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975); title: Leone Sinigaglia (1868-1944); title: Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884); title: Louis Spohr (1784-1859); title: Richard Strauss (1864-1949); title: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971); title: Josef Suk (1874-1935); title: Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937); title: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893); title: Joan Tower (b.1938); title: Joaquin Turina (1882-1949); title: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958); title: Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959); title: William Walton (1902-1983); title: Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826); title: Anton Webern (1883-1945); title: Hugo Wolf (1860-1903); title: Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931); title: Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942); title: Jon Zorn (b.1953).